Jan 23 2008
Meditations - January 23, 2008
January 23, 2008
Scripture: But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
Prayer: Dear Lord, teach me about hope.
Response: There is much to tell you about hope. Before defining it, hope takes seed in your heart. And in the heart hope manifests your recognition of me, prompted by my grace to you. It is as if you are standing before the classroom, alone, and you proclaim your confidence in what you heart sometimes most faintly is certain.
It is like being off the coast and a deep fog settles over your craft. You hear a fog horn and know intuitively from where the sound originates indicating the narrow channel to the safe harbor.
Here is another image. Hope is moving across a rope bridge swaying above a chasm and finding a rhythm in your steps that does not move against the rhythm of the bridge as you move to the other side and safety.
Hope is, as I have said, certainty in a storm that no matter of fear or agitation that surrounds can distract you from your goal.
And see what I promise besides. In hope your strength is renewed. As you expend effort, empty yourself, you find that I fill you with strength for the arduous path, so that you soar, exhilarating and accelerating on the wind, abandoning all the constraints that those land-bound choose for themselves, and you journey endlessly without any glimmer of fatigue, and let me say encouraged by the good humor you display
It is through hope that we meet. Hope is the completed circle of my love in you. In hope you raise a banner for all to see and for me to meet.
All for this day.
