There is hope

I have been thinking a lot today about hungry people throughout the world. I was wondering today what I could do about it, how I could help, and so I started googling things, and then I remembered this organization I had looked into a few years ago called Heifer, when my Spanish teacher said she wanted to donate a goat. I've always wanted to donate through them, though became discouraged last time I wanted to, but this time I am determined to do so. And I think about my small efforts, that I may be able to buy a goat or a bunch of chicks or bunnies, or whatever else, for some family across the world. I'll be able to do at least one soon, but over the course of my life, I should be able to help lots of people.

And so when I come home, and I start thinking about my own life, and the things that sometimes seem hopeless, the things that seem like they are unsolveable problems, I remember there is always hope. On the other side of the world, there is a family that may think there is no hope that they can feed all of their children, that they will go hungry, but they will find that that was wrong, and that there is reason to hope. My problems don't even take a goat or food to solve. They take a shift in perspective, a new understanding, an enlightening of a view, and a re-determination to work.

Today I am reminded of how much I may think I know about the future, and how I do not know the things that will cross my path that will change me forever for the better, that will be the exact thing I needed, when I had no idea I needed it, had no idea it would come, but it is not false hope that such things will come, because they always do. The "unsolveable" problems of the world can be solved.

I remember that there is always hope, for so many reasons, but most of them coming back to the fact that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me, and there is always opportunity for a miracle. It is the nature of the world to change. That is a fact that brings us so much hope, and so much sorrow. So much hope, that in bad times, things can always change for the better, and to sorrow, because the joy we know now can never stay the same as it is. But that is also wisdom, because it becomes a much more complex and rich joy, and we learn to truly appreciate it.

I have found my hope in pictures of chickens and goats, because though they are not what I need, I can see the way they fit together to bring a miracle to someone else, and I have no doubt that the things I do need will come, just as those will go to someone who needs them.

And so I hope.