How to Put Hope on a Heart?
Updated: Apr 14
The Earth and its people know pain, of this I am certain.
We see it in the news and in the eyes of our neighbors.
In the stories of loved ones that unravel the bits of thread that once pierced them, stitch by stitch.
And then, more happens.
As if the level of pain in the world were not enough.
Yet regermination takes place deep under soil. And pain somehow connects hearts like a mycorrhizal network.
Shifting our thoughts and perspectives.
Allowing us a second longer to glance into each precious moment from some higher awareness,
an awareness that knows just how quickly it all comes, and goes.
And I think of the Earth’s pain,
But also its joy.
It’s shores that chase children playfully, and waves that lure even the dolphins.
As a child of its dust, I ponder the flowers and trees, symbiotically intertwined with us as we breathe. Together, transferring bits of spirit, exchanging molecules for molecules.
And I see that maybe the Earth doesn’t judge the wind and so I no longer ask why,
I just cry with those who cry,
and pray
for love to inspire the meeting of needs, and for hope to flood into the hearts of it’s people
like I pray for the water to quench the embers of destruction.
And I think maybe to put lasting hope in a heart, the kind that doesn’t falter at the failings of life,
you have to see the heart fully. Even one’s own.
And hold the pain of atrophied flesh, as blood and burden drip on your own hand.
But perceive
that the heart both bleeds and feeds.
So tell it the whispers of the capillaries
flushing the cells with care,
And turn it towards the of beauty of the sun, bringing life through all the Earth. And let it know how preciously loved it is by God
simply
for
existing. ✨
And pray that each beat of perceiving life still has goodness, gets just a little stronger than the last.
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:13 NKJV
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