Hope

Hope was a message from a fireside that I saw tonight with my youngest daughter and wife while my 2 of my 4 college attending students saw it either live or via satellite in Chicago. It was powerful and left me contemplative. I love pondering the power of hope. I just love pondering sometimes. Hope is what motivates us to stretch after we have exercised faith. Hope is a by-product of faith. Hope is a result of faith and we are rewarded with hope as we obey. There is something better. There is peace to be found personally and familially. Will there be peace in the world? Not until after the second coming of our Savior but there is always hope. Hope is not a wish. Hope is much more profound and substantive. It is tangible yet ephemeral if we are not obedient and exercising faith. Hope is what we have because of the atonement. Hope is knowledge, partial yet fulfilling. Hope is not complete knowledge but a knowing of things and distilled upon our souls through feelings, impressions and whisperings. Hope is what I strive to attain daily. Without faith there can be no hope. Without hope we are lost and fallen and carnal; the natural man. Faith is the fount out of which, if we are faithful, flows hope.