Quote Motion #5

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have is not permanent”.   - Jean Kerr

Hope. Small word with mighty power. Hope has given flesh to bones when everything about carries the image of death. The power of hope has brought back life to many destroyed gifts and dreams which unfair circumstances have denied realization. It has resurrected dead visions because the heart of the visionary refuses to give up hope in the face of contrariness.

When the future is bleak and uncertain, when the light of tomorrow is faint, when your resources are depleted but still you keep on keeping on, you have hope. When in the midst of the toughest challenges you stand firm on the rock of hope, you demonstrate belief that what the challenges present are only temporal. When in the turbulence of the fiercest wind of affliction you hold on strong to the staff of hope and would not let that faint light of hope dim out, what your mind is set on would eventually be realized. You know that what you are going through, which is a source of pain and frustration, is not meant to consume you. You do not know how you know, but you just know. Hope is the feeling you have that the feelings of uncertainty is not permanent!

Situations around us oftentimes tend to dazzle us not into ecstatic states, but into conditions of fear, doubt, and apprehension. Negative situations which come about in the natural working order, that is, those odd situations which pop up naturally without being a direct effect of causes from us, do weaken the resolve to keep on hope of a number of people, not because the spark of hope is absent, but because they appear powerless and unable to handle these situations. In cases like these the best thing to do is to hold on to hope. Hope should be the motivator for every move aimed at righting the wrongs.

Hoping for change in any situation has the power to weaken the foundation of the problem and to hasten change. Hope is a force. A power of the human spirit. Backed with actions and words, however insignificant they may seem, the force of hope can break through concrete challenges and bring about positive results.

The ultimate test of the power of hope is time. Can it stand circumstances and situations that seem to last forever? Can it endure affliction, strife, suffering, hunger and persecution? Can it hope against all hope? Hope is the resolve to hold on, to keep on, and to keep holding on even in the face of terrible contradictions. Hope is the knowledge that nothing is impossibly permanent. It is the power to see the light before coming out of the tunnel.