Day One

Hope.

What does it even mean? I find myself asking this question a lot. My guitar mentor always told me I needed to find hope, I never had the courage to actually ask her what it even truly meant. According to Webster's dictionary, hope means "to cherish a desire with anticipation". One of dictionary.com's defintions of hope reads "to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence; to believe, desire, or trust". You think I would know since I got it tattooed on my wrist. I know it's something positive...right? To trust. I lack that. To believe? Believe what? In God? Who He is? What He is doing? I think I believe. I know He's there, but I sure don't feel Him. And His plans for my life? I wish I knew them. To cherish a desire? What's my desire? What's your desire?

I was looking through some music videos today and came across one that caught my attention. It is a live concert of Fireflight, one of my favorite bands. I like Dawn Michele's version of hope best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXuLPQQbj8U&feature=related

God is hope.
"When He looks at you, He doesn't see your mistakes, He doesn't see your past. He sees this great hope. He sees everything that you can be, everything that He made you to be. And the good news is God never fails."
~Dawn Michele

It's my first day to write and I do not know what to say other than I'm stuck. Fireflight puts it so well in their song "Forever": I am in the lost and found sitting on the shelf. But maybe not quite to the found part yet.