Hope

We just celebrated the first sunday of advent, themed hope.

Has it every striked us why the church repeats the liturgy every year, is hope really essential in life? If so, how does it affect our lives? How do we materialise these hopes or help others materialise their hopes?

My reflection brought me to certain conclusions which I would like to share with those who read the blog.

Hope is really essential in one's life. In fact, it is the essence of life. Hope drives us on, hope gives us motivation in life and a direction to work towards. This would in turn give us passion to materialise these hopes. Hope gives one consolation, just imagine the lives of the marginalised and those who constantly live a life of adversity, without hope, they would have ended their lives long ago. Many of them live to wait for people to lend them a helping hand. This already shows that hope drives the lives of many. In addition, look at people who live hopeless lives, are they genuinely happy? Do they know where are they heading in life? NO!

A life with hope is colourful, its one that is vibrant...In the Christian sense, what are we hoping for...In this time of advent, we are called not so much to materialise our own hopes, but help others materialise their hopes. Some just wish to be happy, some wish to get some attention, some wish for someone to say something pleasant to them? How are we, in our own way answering this call?

Look at the people around us, are we doing anything about it? Or are we turning a deaf ear, or worse still, jeopardising the lives of others...On a global level, what brings hope? I guess it is PEACE, kinda self explanatory, only peace would bring hope to the lives of others.

Let us at least pray for peace in the world and offer a helping hand to others to the people in our lives and be hope bringers to them, as that would make a big difference in their lives.

AMEN!

Make me a channel of your peace!