hope

Who knows hope if not the person who lives in a dungeon?who knows hope if not an innocent man on death row, who knows hope if not a mother waiting for her child to get home, who in this world knows hope if not a child that has done his best in his examinations, indeed who knows hope if not you? after mentions of hope i must say there are things i think about that might possibly be the very definition of hope. i make time to find my way, to ensure that my life decisions lead somewhere i follow a code of education that was handed down to me by my own parents. there is no chance in my life that i could sit about and wait for life to happen, because in all honesty life is not about that neither is hope. my hopes and my dreams change as others are fulfilled and by far i have found so much to be in my favour that sometimes when i complain of things gone bad i feel about terrible of my complaints, truly what right do i have? there are people in world who have no idea what they will have for dinner and yet they hope, people in the world who have no idea when their army will declare a cease fire and yet every night, in their knees they go, and pray. how then am i, a woman with basic needs, who had a loving partner who has healthy children, who has good friends and power in house do i bring myself to be hopeless?
Hope has been a word i knew from childhood and yet i never understood how deep it ran, Martin Luther King Jr had hope. he had a dream and he like all great people followed on the example of someone perhaps not greater but an example that brings in hope. my personal hope is that one day i might raise my children in a world where their race is not skin colour, but its making it in a world that learns fast and teaches even faster, where their father's tongue is just as good as their mothers' where their hope is to be better than the generation before them and that they might sacrifice their wants to make it a better world for the generation after that.
i hope that they might recognise the dreams and hopes of leaders before them, i hope they will know with their hearts the struggles of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr King, understand that violence never fixed anything. these men decided to make their lives about everyone else' freedom they lived truly for the next generation and their hearts have been extended to us, because they have taught us better than what we always knew. in his 381day bus boycott Dr King adopted a non violent protest, it had been the most efficient his was an amazing example that hope for the next generation can be done through a simple act of love. Jesus himself taught without violence, in everything he did, he taught of brotherly love and loving an enermy. its amazing isnt it? that the world persecutes the hopeful and embraces the people who preach violence and death, we love to know that hope is for the silly,the dreamy, the easily forgotten.
find a place in your heart where hope resides, give it your best shot. find someone who gives you hope, find a soul that will give you a chance to dream, and mid dream find a soul that will remind you that dreaming and living the dream takes time takes commitment. do you have the right person by your side right now?is there hope in your life?