Hope

In the following speech, John F. Kennedy speaks of a practical hope, one that challenges us to know we can effect our world for good, we can change our world for the betterment of all people, and that when we are in need, our duty as fellow humans and especially for us as Christians, is to offer without limit our assistance and our hope.

"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. "

Hope is not a dream or a fantasy of magic, it is a willingness to suspend judgment until all possible efforts and options are spent, and even then to wait a moment longer.

History is full of stories of hope against seemingly impossible odds, unthinkable miracles and yet time and again the physics of life are turned in our favour without reason, without understanding for our knowledge is tiny compared to the size of an infinite universe and a God of infinite love.

So when you cannot hold your hope, allow others to do so, 
when you can no longer believe, allow others to continue to believe in you, 
and when you cannot think of a reason to get up, allow others to sit with you, 
to pick you up and to carry you as God does in love and in sadness.

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”

Love knows no bounds, and God is love