Hope is believing any setback is temporary and that you are walking a journey that is making you stronger and leading you along the right path.
Imagine that you never experienced trials? Would you learn what courage meant? Would you know the depths of resolve that you could plumb? Would you ever feel satisfied knowing that you could always make it through difficult situations?
Trials make us stronger. We endure. We learn. We grow, emotionally and spiritually.
Trust that when the path ahead looks blocked, a way will
open. Trust that when things don't go the way you would like them to,
that it's because a better door is waiting for you to find it.
If you don't get the job you were hoping for, maybe it's because there's a better one around the corner. When you are excluded from joining an exclusive members-only club, would you have wanted to be part of the club? If your book is turned down for publishing again and again, might it be that somewhere a publisher is eagerly waiting for your exact story? Or is it because you needed to write the first book, so that you could go on to write the second, which you thought would be inferior but that will be an instant bestseller? Or maybe it's because you were not meant to be a writer, but a teacher? Yet again, maybe it's because God wanted you to write your book for one lonely person on the other side of the world who now has hope.
When your path ahead looks like it leads into ever darkening despair, keep walking with your head firmly down until you reach the plateau where you can see for miles all around you, and maybe you will see the path you came from was actually a short cut through endless mountains of gloom.
Keep walking into hope.
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