Daily Word (9.24.09)

Hope:

"The light and love of God within me shine brightly." (DW, 9.24.09)

"Your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning. And you will have confidence, because there is hope." (Job 11:17-18)

Mei Meditatio:

Hope is not a vain wishing that something will be the case, bereft of any actuality or reality extant in the attitude. Rather, hope is a confident expectation that something will be the case, teeming with a faithful attitude that the essential good in what is hoped for will assuredly come about, or is already always present but simply not yet recognized.

The light and love of God in Christ shine in me and through me now, making the darkness of night into the dawn of morning. New mornings are always occurring in my life, and I have the confidence to recognize and accept these rebirths in the trusting hope of greater glory to God and God's creation.

In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.