Post by Murph on Mar 4, 2024 8:20:10 GMT -6
We Have Hope Again
A few nights ago, one of my best friends, Emily, and I were at dinner. She sat down and, without any small talk, launched right in. “I’m afraid I am depressed.” Emily is in a lot of counseling right now, working through decades of hard circumstances and pain. She said, “It feels like everything is getting worse, not better — yet.”
Yet. She still had hope it would turn. It was a tiny sliver, but today, even as I write these words, she is at her counselor’s office for her next session because, as hopeless as some circumstances feel, she chooses to hope enough to show up and give God room to work.
Resilience and perseverance require hope. We would all stay in our beds permanently if it weren’t for hope. Even if it’s just a small sliver, we believe things could be better than they are.
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