So I have to be intentional about the messages I expose my heart to and remind myself that there is no time to be pessimistic or judgmental or mean or afraid or hopeless. This morning, for example, I listened to this song on repeat approximately 27 times 'cause it's what my soul needed. I do stuff like that a lot...anyone else?
If you're interested in this "Hope" print, it's now available in my shop. And I'll give away a free, signed "Hope" print to one randomly selected commenter on this post. So leave a comment here and let me know one thing you are hoping for/in. I'll pick a winner this weekend and post the results here on Monday!Hopefully yours,
Arian : )
I do the same thing with movies and news. If a movie if full of hopeless, terrible people and has no redeeming qualities, it can put me in the worst mood ever.
ReplyDeleteTonight I am hoping for a much better finish to the day than how it began.
i find hope in Jesus!!
ReplyDeleteyour "hope" print is beautiful
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I agree. I try to surround myself with positive people. Sometimes that means separating myself from the negative ones. I really love this print!
ReplyDeleteMy husband & I are hoping for a couple things. We have been praying lot about starting a family. We have been trying for over a year and half. We still have hope though.
More recently we have been hoping that he gets the job he has been trying for. :)
Today i am putting hope in nothing but God. Short on $, need guidance. I was worried yesterday, but today i realized it is beyond me. He will guide me. He is my hope.
ReplyDeleteI do things like that all the time. I'm the same way about scary movies, and I even have a terrible time with the news because it affects me so deeply. Details in the Fabric by Jason Mraz is the song that calms me again when I feel like I'm losing myself a bit. It's actually the only Jason Mraz song I own, but a friend sent it to me during a bit of a crisis a few years ago and it's been a personal reminder ever since.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting ready for a very big move, and a very big life change. Going through a divorce, and a now-single momma/student, moving 500 miles away from my family, I hope for smooth transitions and beautiful new beginnings. <3
Your hope print is amazing. One of my very favorite words. With my very favorite meaning behind it. Love your work, as always. :)
Truly it may sound like a Sunday school answer, but I put hope in having a future because of Jesus. Specifically, right now I hope for a great future for my daughter—that she may put her own hope in Jesus too!
ReplyDeleteNeat song. I'd never heard it before.
I am a new follower of yours and I love your work. Beautiful!!! I am also the same way when it comes to pessimistic or depressing things, they always affect me. Listening to the same song over and over again also helps me a lot, although it may drive some crazy! LoL.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am hoping for is for the strength for me to keep my motivation and keep changing my world for the better!
Hope. I Hope in something more. That one day I will be united with my God and Savior. That one day all of the battles in this life will be won. The Hope that all will be made new and all my scars will be healed. Living without Hope... what's living worth? Hope gets me through each Monday morning, each routine, and over each rising hurtle. This poster is just another reason to push forward. Thanks for your work... it is beautifully brilliant!
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Why does the topic of hope keep coming up all around me? Why am I so drawn to it? Hope is available to me and as I've been exploring and learning more about myself and my God...I'm finding more hope. It is a pretty amazing thing. Oh and your print is pretty amazing too....oh and so are you.
-Mariah Kroger
beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI am hoping for strength and wisdom at work today. I want to be stable source of support in a hopeless environment.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. :)
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are hoping to start a family and hoping that the fear and worry that were present constantly the first time we tried will not be around the next time.
Oh, I love that you listened to needtobreathe 27 times. I listen to them so often that my husband has to stop me from putting on the vinyl *justonemoretime*
ReplyDeleteRight now, I'm hoping for a new job. One that brings me joy. This one is sucking my soul dry. I'm also hoping my husband and I can find a way to buy a new car.
Thanks for reminding me to go back to my own meditation and my will to HOPE in the Lord! I'll have to look at my own HOPE poster again...
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this! So beautiful. I have to agree with so many others... my only true hope really is in Jesus. Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons to have fear nowadays because of this crazy world, but what none of us have to forget, there are double reasons to be happy and grateful as well, I saw a video of american soldiers coming back home surpirsing their kids, their couples and wow, it remind me that we r not alone, our family, friends r always there and we must never 4get that!
ReplyDeleteBtw this is the link! http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=455621345922&ref=mf
Love hope. Love that print. Love randomness. Love you. Love to buy it even if chance feels otherwise.
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful..your hope print.
ReplyDeleteI am in hope for my best friend and her beautiful children. Her husband left her in April.... out of the blue...really. I know that our hope is in God but boy, wouldn't it be good for her to have this to set her eyes on. My hope for them is healing, for a plan and a future.
I would give her the print...if I won :0)
Love it! We all need hope.
ReplyDeleteI put my hope in grace and the fact that I do not understand it.
ReplyDeleteI put my hope in Jesus. I remind myself that no matter how terrible things get/seem that I don't have to worry because Jesus has overcome the world. That's why John 16:33 is one of my favorite verses.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping for a dream that my husband and I stumbled on this past week. I'm hoping for the new heaven and the new earth that we will share with Jesus someday.
ReplyDeleteHope is the theme of my summer right now.
ReplyDeleteEverything feels out of my control, but I am hoping in my Savior Jesus to restore relationships, heal loved ones, and guide me in knowing what to do with my life, among about a bajillion other things! :)
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Ps, it's beautiful!
I find hope in the baby girl kicking in my stomach. In fact, we are giving her the middle name "Umida," which means "hope" in Uzbek.
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