dailydatewithgod

 Hope is one of those elusive concepts that seems to slip right through your fingers, yet we know it when we see it.  It is that look of promise, that scene of understanding, a sense of things unknown being possible.  I remember last year at this time I began to think of what my intention would be for the new year.  I am not so big on resolutions per say because I try to stay focused on one day at a time, but I did want to set forth in my mind a direction for my thinking and thus feeling and experience.  My intention therefore was to be open to things unknown and the possibility of the impossible.  How is that for vague? LOL!  I just remembered back to 2009 and how on New Year’s Even I was driving to be with friends in Arizona.  I misjudged the timing and forgot about the time zone change, so while my plans were to be with them, at the actual stroke of midnight I was on the freeway.  It struck me that I was on the I-8 transition to I-10.  There is no I-9 that I am aware of and it was like I was walking into a year where there was no path set up for me.  That is very much how the year was for me.  One month in I was laid off from my job due to budget cuts, I had the opportunity to do some extra work on a film (of which I ended up for 2 seconds on the final cut-woohoo, very exciting!), I took the Landmark Forum and a couple of other courses resulting in tremendous transformation in my life which mended relationships with my family.  And there were many little events that contributed to a year that at the start had no clear path.  Without realizing it I was hoping for a similar year in 2012.  Now, as I look back on the year the moments of unknown were many but it was not as clear-cut as it was in 2009.  I remember when I was watching the second Narnia film the God character, Aslan, the lion, was questioned about why he took so long to show up.  His reply was something along the lines that he doesn’t do the same the same way twice.  It struck me because I know for me I am always looking for some sort of routine and set schedule of how things will happen and unfold so that I can rely on things to be safe.  But I suppose that is the distinction of safety versus hope.  God is all about hope.  God is all about stretching and doing things differently.  There is a trust that occurs with hope which I suppose is why it is said that these three remain, “faith, hope, and love.”  I get the impression when the apostle Paul wrote those words it was because he wanted the Corinthians to know that they needed to coexist, that those three concepts support each other.  So as I look back on 2012 and moments of the impossible becoming possible I see many, most of which involve personal relationships and connecting with others in new ways.  Similar to 2009 but in a deeper way.  I am committed to transforming my life so that will always be there, but there is a deeper need for hope as I continue on that path especially since it twists in turns in ways that I cannot imagine.  My mind of fear wants to be scared of that but my faith in a God who is beyond all understanding hopes in that.  As I look to the day, I will find ways to be hopeful.  When my mind wants to be fearful and come up with scenarios of how it is not going to work because it didn’t before, I will remember that God will show up in a different way this time.  My prayer for you is that you experience hope in your heart today–that you face something that seems impossible and have a moment to take a deep breath, connect with that hope (God) and be a shining light for what is possible in the world.  Perhaps that seems like a lot for a Monday, but I am hoping it is possible.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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