I like this quote because it harkens back to hope – “There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.” (Helen Fagin)
The facts and reality of day-to-day life can often get tough or boring, but if one has hope and dreams based upon that hope it is more bearable.
You may have been inclined to answer the question in today’s title with the word “faith”. I would submit that faith is based upon hope and the dream of a better afterlife to come.
One may have somewhat passive hope and dreams or one may use that hope and those dreams to motivate them into action. President Barack Obama put it this way in his Iowa caucus victory speech in 2008–
“Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”
There are many times in life when the “facts” of what is happening around us or to us may not be very encouraging. It is during those times that our faith and the hope that it is based upon sustain us. We get through those times because we know and trust that we can get through them, because we are not alone. We have not only hope but faith in that hope.
There was a quote in the Jack’s Winning Words blog recently that also seems appropriate to use here.
“I trust the next chapter, because I know the author.” (Unknown)
If you have faith in God, you know the author of your life and you can have hope and faith in whatever He has laid out for you in the next chapter of your life. What is even more comforting is that the same hope and faith will carry you on into the chapter after this life. You can be sustained when facing death not in fear, but in hope and anticipation, because you know the author for that, too.
We all have hopes and dreams, based upon those hopes. As for me, I trust the next chapter in my life, because I know the author.
What sustains you?
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What sustains me? Each new day when Iâm feeling good. Each new day with family and friends around me. A brain that functions. People such as you, Norm.