Have you ever started writing something and then felt ashamed of what you knew you had to write? When I look over the entries on this blog, I see words of life, words of a person who is fully alive and stepping out into life with eagerness. I also see the faithfulness of God and the mighty ways He has moved in my life. Right now, that's not how I am living or what I feel like writing.
I'll be honest, I sat down to write a post about how I just 'haven't been feeling it' lately and how I'm just holding on because I know without God I would be lost. Now, all that is true, but it also seems lifeless. But perhaps not entirely. Because even if I am not "on fire for God" right now and full of vim and vigor, I still have hope. That's what I am holding on to. Without hope that things will change and hope that God is still the same, I am lifeless. I need hope. I need it to keep going. I need it to be creative. I need it to hold on. I need it to laugh.
Hope is pretty amazing. But you know what? We as Believers, have an incredible and awe inspiring reason to hope. Our hope is not unfounded or without reason, for we hope in something that is true and unchanging. God is true. God is real and alive. God sees us and loves us and chooses to come live our lives with us. We can trust completely in that knowledge! So when we say we hope in God, we are stating a true, honest fact.
Anyhow, I pray that gives you a boost in your hope and makes you smile. I know writing those words made my heart feel heaps lighter and definitely made me smile!
Update: I have received my official re-acceptance letter from Reach Global for a three month internship in New Orleans this summer. :) *cue happy dance* So now begins the preparations and support raising. I'll be planning a few fundraisers over the next five months so stay tuned for that! Also, if you wish, you can donate directly to my fund per instructions below. Thanks!
Send a check to Evangelical Free Church, 901 East 78th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55420, put in the memo line: Account #2815-Victoria Davis. OR, online: www.efca.org/give-now, and designate: Account #2815-Victoria Davis.
"Hope
fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it
can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it
is called “the rejoicing of hope.” (Hebrews 3:6)"
– William Gurnall –
Happy New Year!
