We must not let hope abandon us, because god, with his love, walks with us.
- “I hope, because God is beside me”: we can all say this. Each one of us can say: “I hope, I have hope, because God walks with me.”
- God does not leave us to ourselves. The Lord Jesus has conquered evil and has opened the path of life for us…
Return to God, and return to hoping and smiling. When we are in darkness, in difficulty, we do not smile, and it is precisely hope which teaches us to smile in order to find the path that leads to God.
- One of the first things that happens to people who distance themselves from God is that they are people who do not smile. Perhaps they can break into a loud laugh, one after another, a joke, a chuckle… but their smile is missing! Only hope brings a smile: it is the hopeful smile in the expectation of finding God.
Life is often a desert, it is difficult to walk in life, but if we trust in God, it can become beautiful and wide as a highway. Just never lose hope, just continue to believe, always, in spite of everything.
- Each one knows what desert he or she is walking in – it will become a garden in bloom. Hope does not disappoint! Welcome the Good News of the coming of salvation.
Awake, shake off the dust and chains, and put on the most beautiful clothes, because the Lord has come to free his people
Isaiah 52:1-3
God is coming to fulfill something new, to establish a kingdom of peace… Evil will not triumph forever; there is an end to suffering. Despair is defeated because God is among us.
- We are urged to awake and become men and women of hope, cooperating in the coming of this Kingdom made of light and destined for all, men and women of hope.
Re-source: Redemption
the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil
When we speak of hope, often it refers to what is not in man’s power to realize, which is invisible. In fact, what we hope for goes beyond our strength and our perception. But the birth of Christ, inaugurating redemption, speaks to us of a different hope, a dependable, visible, and understandable hope, because it is founded in God.
- God walks with us in Jesus, and walking with him toward the fullness of life gives us the strength to dwell in the present in a new way.
In hope, we are saved
Romans 8:24
- Am I walking with hope, or is my interior life static, closed?
- Is my heart a locked drawer or a drawer open to the hope which enables me to walk – not alone – with Jesus?
Christian hope is expressed in praise and gratitude to God, who has initiated his Kingdom of love, justice, and peace.
craving and resource from “Beautiful Hope” – Finding Hope Every Day in a Broken World – by Pope Francis
