This Epidemic

hope (noun)

1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a
certain thing to happen
2. a person or thing that may help or save
someone
3. grounds for believing that something good may
happen

We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue.

Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue from time to time.

To be His body, to fight for things that matter. He is not invisible

when we come alive. I might be simple & not understand

everything that I come across but more and more, I believe God

works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love. We are only

asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don't get to

choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers.

We won't solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called home. I see it as simple, take a broken person, treat them like they are famous, let them feel like they are on top of the world, love them and let them know that they are so loved. Tell them about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, that they were made to dance without a care in the world. Tell them that god loves them & know in your heart that all of these things are true. We can make a difference. People are so wrapped up in there day to day lives that they don't notice how much they could do. They say that they've never seen God work through anyone or witnessed his love.This is our chance...Go out and do some good in the world, we may not succeed, we may fail miserably. But if for one fleeting second you make someone know that they are loved and cared for. That they mean something in this world, & you give them hope....that is the greatest feeling on the planet, and is the best cure for this epidemic that our society is suffering from. It's a long road butall is not lost, we can make it if we try.

"The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and
clouds.
We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We
have hope."