SAD, BUT TRUE

Hope is a wonderful thing. But isn't it a lot easier to have hope when you can see something as a possibility instead of the facts in reality being totally bleak.

For example, a person in good health has a reason to be hopeful regarding tomorrow. Whereas a person who just found out that they have some terminal disease with less than two months to live is less likely to see the future as all that hopeful.

Therein lies the basic dilemma with life in part. It is hard to feel good about the future, if there is not sense of hope. If you can't see your life as having any possible chance for improving.

True, we do have influence over such things by our attitude, but admittedly there are times when life is a form of valley or challenge that simply is not going to end. The dream makers will always tell you things can improve. But often they end up remaining gridlocked by things we can't always control.

It is easy to feel sad and bitter if it seems like the world is passing you by. You can do mental inventory and look at your life convinced you are just as deserving as the next person of things you don't have.

Yet, at times such things do elude. Which naturally stirs the question, where is God? Or the even more popular, what has the Lord forsaken me?

How often that question has come into my own head. The answer has never come, but that doesn't keep me from feeling that way at times.

There is no definite answer that will truly explain how and why some prosper in this life and some don't. We can look into the heart and see what exists in that chamber of desire.

God can and does. And even in the scripture we see how varied life was for so many. What I can appreciate is how for the person of faith, this is never all there is of life.

There is eternity, which is certainly a lot longer than this life. Can't God in the eons find away to truly grant us so much more than anything we think we didn't receive in this life?

That perhaps is where in part the truth really does reside. Where God is not just felt, but seen.

It is the place where we can see what really counts and will endure. We might not be able to always find comfort in this fact while suffering or struggling.

But hopefully, somewhere in the days have plodding and wondering when we simply survive without joy, we can still be warmed by what has for us transpires as a vision of things to come.

It might not be the perfect answer, but it hopefully will grant another place where we can hold onto in faith to God and his word.