I hope...

I hope you see hope and good where you are now.

I hope you will not be ruled by how it looks and feels at the moment.

I hope you see that each moment is a step on a journey and part of a bigger and better thing, but that the journey can be scary.

I hope that you accept confusion, questions, crooked lines, fatigue, fog, loneliness, darkness, rejection, and low self-esteem as part of the journey of hope. These things come and go and have nothing to do with hope; they only have to do with how you feel about hope.

I hope you think and dream, but pursue your hope with faith and actions.

I hope you spend more time pursuing than regretting, second-guessing, and woe-is-me’ing.

I hope that even though your hope is in a Teagan 4-Drawer Chest from Crate&Barrel, you recognize and embrace when God designates this broken dresser on the Nester’s blog today as the true fulfillment of that hope. (that’s not a comment about furniture)

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Comments

[Abbie]

I routinely forget and let myself be influenced by how it looks and feels at the moment - I've got four little kids and a busy husband, it doesn't always look pretty if I get lost in the details. The bigger picture, the one building the cathedral (instead of laying bricks or building a wall), is hard for me to see. But I want to. I hope to.

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