The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. ~ Lamentations 3:25-26
This past year we had to get rid of our VHS player and most of our VHS videos. Not because it did not work any more, but because this boy, loved to watch the same scenes over and over and over again. It was not that this was so terrible annoying at times that made us decide to remove these items, but that it was causing some behavior issues in our sweet boy. He did not want to stop watching those same movies and those same scenes over and over and over…
And when we would try to stop him it would put him into a meltdown. A good ole’ fashion temper tantrum. So for our sanity and his - we removed the VHS player and videos. Now these videos sat on top of our entertainment center in these ugly plastic containers that were once part of an old plastic storage unit. After we got rid of the videos I put those plastic containers out in the garage and each day I would find those empty containers back on the top of the entertainment center. This went on for weeks and months - we were finally able to get it down to one empty plastic container that sat there…
as a reminder to him… a reminder of hope…
hope that those videos would one day return.
Each day he would run in after school and check to see if the bucket was still there…
~wishing, desiring, expecting, anticipating, waiting
and fully trusting.
It struck me one afternoon… that this boy’s hope is so precious…
so childlike… so pure…
As I thought about this I wondered…
do I have that kind of hope…
the kind that just believes and fully trusts that one day
those empty places will be filled…
the kind that does not stop believing
that those empty dreams of old will one day be fulfilled…
the kind that day after day preservers and does not give up…
do you got hope? the kind that is an anchor for your soul…
the kind that overrides your minds doubts…
the kind that calms your running emotions of worries and fears…
the kind that is stable and not double minded,
~wavering back and forth…
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson
he has taught me that hope sings the tunes without the words – and never stops…
Jonathan speaks~
