Reviving Hope

[[DUM SIPRO,SPERO]] "While I breathe,I hope."

How do I give hope to people? I want to know. I wish it was easier to impart. You see my struggle? I hope to change lives. But how are they going to recieve what I'm saying when I haven't experienced what its like to feel deep pain or grief or abuse or hopelessness? How do I wake them up? I wish I knew. I want something more to show for my every day...I hope I can,I hope.

What is hope? Its definitley not physically tangible, it's internal. An emotion? A feeling? A sense? I guess its optimism...but the beginnings of it. Maybe hope is a way of travel,not a destination. Its a means,not an end.

Definitions from dictionary.com and WikiPedia:

To look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence.
To believe, desire, or trust.
Expectancy, longing.

Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope implies a certain amount of despair, wanting, wishing, suffering or perseverance — i.e., believing that a better or positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary.

Wise Words About Hope:

"Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusion. It is not compelled to work away at keeping up appearances with a bogus spirituality. It is the opposite of desperate and panicky manipulations, of scurrying and worrying. And hoping is not dreaming. It is not spinning an illusion or fantasy to protect us from our boredom or our pain. It means a confident, alert expectation that God will do what he said he will do. It is imagination put in the harness of faith. It is a willingness to let God do it in his way and in his time. It is the opposite of making plans that we demand that God put into effect, telling him both how and when to do it."
-- Eugene Peterson.

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
-- Samuel Smiles.

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
-- Erich Fromm.