“Something good is going to happen to me. This very day, this very year. Something good is going to happen to me. Jesus is blessing my way!”
Sis. Myra Bolo
Hope can take different meanings and form for many people. It can be seen as “a gift from God that relates the past to the present and the future and for reaching a happy and definitive end”. It can also be our desire for the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit or even a “positive expectation that something good is going to happen to you because of God’s great goodness.”
Whatever meaning or feeling we attach with hope, one thing is for sure. Hope is powerful. And as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reminds us, it makes us live differently because we are granted the gift of new life.
What can hope do to us?
Hope gives us salvation. Pope Francis reminds us that “God is able to make everything work unto good because even from the grave, He brings life.”
Hope keeps us from discouragement. It is God our Father and Jesus Christ that gave us eternal encouragement and good hope (2 Thessalonians 2:16).
Hope sustains us during times of abandonment. We wait for and hope for and expect the Lord to come.
Hope provides us joy.
Hope energizes and motivates us to take action.
Hope opens up our hearts in expectation of eternal beatitude.
Now is the time to sow seeds of hope. Establish prayer times and fulfill the Holy Sacraments. Develop thoughts filled with hope. Change your daily routines. Care for your physical well-being. Do small gestures of care and acts of kindness, even to strangers. Spend time with hopeful and positive people. Declare to yourself daily: Something good is going to happen to me. This very day, this very year. Something good is going to happen to me. Jesus is blessing my way!
Nurture the virtue of hope in your life. Turn your negative thoughts into thoughts full of hope, and don’t stop praying.
The Power of Hope, shared by Sis. Dulce Block and Sis. Myra Bolo, is the second topic for the SOJC January prayer meeting module. Click the title links to read the second and third topics, The Power of Spoken Blessings and You were born for this!
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