Hope

Some would maybe say that hope is the reason or the will to live. If you have no hope, then you are not living. Or perhaps you have lost hope in a situation that is not between life and death, then maybe hope has a different meaning for you. But when you're talking about a life or death situation, if you hang on to even the tiniest bit of hope then you will survive in every sense of the word, but if you lose hope... then you have nothing to hold onto. No will for living. No reason to continue. Life throws many curve balls your way to get you to lose hope, to knock you to your knees. Hope must be kept if you are to survive and persevere. Today at church, we learned of a young single mother who just had to deal with the loss of losing her young child. Now, this is where hope comes into play, she can either let this break her, or keep hope and keep going on. Hopefully she keeps the hope. (I am hopeful she keeps hope;) ).