Hope for the Hopeless-Reach out to each other

The most joyful time of the year right?  Presents, trees, lights, gifts.  Most importantly, of course, is the celebration of the birth of our King and Savior Jesus Christ.  But then there are the facts.  Facts of that Christian or not there are those dealing with life issues that they feel they can't shake.  Maybe it's a loss of a job and unemployment hasn't happened, maybe the new job hasn't started yet,  Maybe it's a much bigger issue, It's a sick child.  Maybe it's a husband holding the hand of a wife fighting cancer and they haven't given up on God but there is a sense of sadness they can't shake.

I know last week I was guilty of being mad at my husband for not understanding my stress.  Then I read a face book post of a girl back home to her husband she recently lost and she was telling him how much she loved him and how she'd give anything to have him back with her.  Talk about perspective.  I squeezed my husband's hand a little harder that day.  The only way she could communicate with him was his face book wall.  She now will have her first Christmas without him, with their babies.  Now what were we complaining about again????

We get so busy with life.  Stressing.  Worrying.  Trust me when I tell you I am the pot calling the kettle black.  I of all people know that my God has a plan for my family and that he has big plans for my family.  I have written them down.  I have claimed them.   I have claimed restoration, healing, understanding, financial growth and big things for my family.   But we are going through some things for now and late at night or early in the morning before I have time to read,  than  doubt will sneak in and fear will take over telling me we can't make it.  I literally will have to go deep into prayer and talk to God and get my reassurance that the storm didn't come to stay, it came to pass.  That for every storm I go through, I come out the other side stronger and more knowledgeable and able to help more people.

Even when we are in our own storms, we must, as Christians, reach down and pull each other up.  I promise you, the more you pull each other up, the stronger you become.  We are suppose to be there for each other.   It is part of his plan.

In every aspect of your life pray and if he leads you to, pay it forward.  Be it a hug, a "you doing ok today?",  buying a coffee for the person behind you, live your life like God would.  I have found even if it's your last dollar, mysteriously, that dollar will be returned to you almost as quick as you gave it away.  But don't just do it on your own.  Ask God to lead you.  You'll feel it in your heart and know who it is supposed to be for.  It may just be a "it's going to get better".   We all need each other and when we realize God's people need each other and start to help each other the better this crazy world will be.

Our world is hurting and until the hopeless turn back to who can give us Hope, nothing will change and that change starts with you and me.  We really are in a valley of trouble and we need Him to show us how to get out of it.  I will never give up believing in Hope, Love, God or that His people can come together and change things.