Walk on with Hope in your Heart
Feb 2, 2016
The song sung at my high school graduation was titled “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The lyrics that sum up this famous song are:
“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.”
What have you hoped for in the past and for today? Those who marry have great hopes for the future—children, purchasing a first home, a fulfilling career, time with friends and family, using the education for which you worked so hard, and so on. Sometimes your hopes are “dashed against a stone,” and you need to redirect a hope or replace it with another. Sometimes what was thought to be a worthy hope is never achieved or circumstances change and that hope does not reach fruition.
Acknowledging that hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible is something not to lose sight of. Hope is the anchor for the soul.
How many times have you felt alone and solitary and that no one understands the difficult journey you are taking? I am sure we all have felt this way at some time in our lives—however, the key word in the song is hope, because you really are never walking alone. Just because something isn’t happening right now doesn’t mean it will never happen.
Without hope, life can have a desolate landscape or become a stormy sea. Hope is the anchor of the soul because only God can make a sea of trouble seem less difficult to navigate. And once you choose hope, anything is possible—and perhaps more importantly (we tend to be impatient), just because something isn’t happening right now doesn’t mean it will never happen. God is always waiting for us to be attentive to the eternal and what is being spoken in the depths of our hearts. God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble the door to hope.
Written by Director of Spiritual and Pastoral Care, Janet Marxen