Disclaimer: This is an idea in progress.
There was a man in my youth who used to say "you can wish in one hand and poop in the other and see which fills faster." Sorry for the crude imagery, especially if you happen to be eating breakfast.
I hated this expression. I fancied myself and someone who wished for something better, especially as a young man. I wished for a better life. I wished for a better job. I wished for a better marriage. As much as I love Disney everything, wishing upon a star does not always equal getting your wish.
A wish is defined as to want something to be true.
Enter Hope.
Hope is a different animal. Wish and Hope are cousins like a tabby cat and a tiger are both felines. But like that tabby cat, wishing just lies around the house waiting to be feed. The tiger is a hunter.
Hope is a want for something attached to the belief that it can come true. Hope is one step past wish, but it is one giant Neil Armstrong moon landing step. I believe hope inspires us to look for opportunity. I believe hope pushes us to walk through open doors and even more so to grad the handle of those doors and check to see if they are locked.
Hope creates an expectation. Hope solidifies belief. Hope is one of those three things above everything...Faith, Hope, Love. It's sandwiched between the greatest of these love and the belief in the things that we do not see yet, faith.
We weren't told to wish. We were told to HOPE!
Hold on to hope. Live with hope!
*more to come
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