Hope for the Hopeless-Part 2

           This entry is a part 2 entry to another one that I just wrote and I will get it done today. The sermon from my church today really got to me in all areas of my life. A 30 year old really needed to hear that message when things feel like they are not going her way. Relationships are broken and confusing. Jobs is just wearying her down and seems like there is no more hope for what is going on there with a child. She doesn't want to give up on any child but this child is getting to be too much. The sermon just hit me in all ways today. I needed that encouragement and reminder that there is still hope in the broken things.
          I don't want to say a lot about where I am working because I don't want to get in trouble. When you have a child that just breaks out his craziness and there is no way teachers can stop him, you just need hope in that situation for the little boy and for everyone involved in his life. Friday is the day that he just broke lose and it made me and the other teacher cry because there is nothing we could do. We have done everything we thought of. I mean I cried to my mom on my break Friday and I didn't eat until suppertime last night because I just wasn't hungry. This little boy seems like a hopeless cause but he is smart and he can be when he wants to be. There is hope for him. I have seen little by little of it. It is just getting him to stay that way and use it for the good and not bad. It has came to the point where I just need to remember that God has Hope for that little boy in the long run and me while I am dealing with him right now.
            If that is not a reason to have or get Hope, I need it in my personal life too. I need it for certain relationships/friendships to be fixed or to where we can at least talk again. I need it to where a family will take the time to get to know me and not just know of me by what people have said about me. I change and I have every season of my life. I want them to understand that. I need it where I know that I won't be alone forever. I need it to get through the situation I am in right now. I should have never given up or said I did and now I see that. To get over the hard part of it and then back to where it can be fixed. I need it to know that when everything is calmed back down that things will be okay. I need Hope in a friendship that I really just care about. There are no other words for it.
          I also need Hope for my life's dream to come true. I don't want to work with other people's children all my life. I want some of my own. I need that Hope that I will get to have it when the time is right. I need to know that things will work out just right. I am trying to have the Hope in that that I need and I have been trying since I was a little girl or at least since high school. It is getting harder everyday as I get older because it seems like nothing is changing. It actually seems like things are getting worse for me in that department. Yet one of the quotes that I heard today was that "things had to get worse before they can get better" so maybe that is what God is doing in my life right now. You won't know that it is a "blessing" until you don't know what you would do without it. Right? That sentence can go in a few different ways.
            As you can tell, I just need Hope back in my life. Period. I copied the verses we went over today in church because that is a good story to remember. In the time of waiting, when Jesus is not coming or working, or that's what we think, Jesus always as something better for us in the long run. I have a lot of things that are "dead" in my life right now or it feels that way but I pray that Jesus will bring them back to life in some way. Better then they ever were before. For some, it might take a miracle but I know it can happen. :) To me, yeah, in the story it was a friend of Jesus' that Himself brought back to life but in our lives it doesn't have to be a person. It could even be a situation or time or thing. We are all hopeless in some thing but God can use that thing for our better good. We just need to have HOPE. I know after the sermon today that Hope has a whole new meaning for me because of the things I am going through right now. God knew I needed a new meaning behind it and He gave it to me.

My Own Meaning:

Hope-"When all seems lost, there is one Person we can count on to turn the bad for the better. "