What are you hoping for right now?

Maybe you hope the job comes through. Maybe you hope the relationship heals. Maybe you hope the scan is clean, the child comes home, the grief gets lighter, the money stretches far enough, or the anxiety finally gives you a little room to breathe.

Some hopes are small and daily. We hope traffic clears. We hope the meeting goes well. We hope the weather holds. Other hopes live much deeper. We hope we are loved. We hope our lives matter. We hope the pain we carry is going somewhere. We hope God sees us.