I’m so excited to be featured at my friend Micah Maddox’s blog this week for a guest post. Here’s a brief intro to my post, and I hope you head over there to read the rest.
Hope in Hard Times
I have to admit: hope hasn’t always come easily for me.
I have several hope-defeating tendencies. For starters, I’m naturally one of those glass-half-empty people. It’s easier for me to see the downside than the upside most days.
For most of my childhood and adolescence, I also struggled with passivity and fear. This didn’t help during decades of toxic relationships. Hope was hard to come by when I was in emotional survival mode.
Even though I’ve been a Christian for as long as I can remember, the concept of holding onto hope is rather new to me. Through adversity in my marriage, God taught me that holding on to hope was not only possible, it was essential.
When my husband and I endured a separation two years ago, my worst fears came to life. He and I both came from divorced homes and we both had huge holes in our hearts that had never healed. Our problems spun out of control after fifteen years of marriage. On the night he left, I had nothing else to hold onto except my faith and the faintest glimmer of hope.
Hope is future-oriented. It’s faith-based. It’s the belief that God will fulfill his promises, and better days are ahead. #hope Click To TweetAlso, join me for a hopeful video here:
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