Bright Hope

“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.”― Bob Goff

“Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.”― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

A deeper listening
To hear the soft reply
In words and silence
Silence especially
So much to say, to reveal
Hardened dry topsoil tilled
Seeds planted
Nourished in fertile rich soil
Winter rest
Hibernation, rooting, germination
The nonwork work
Waiting, abiding, anticipation
Promise of spring
For new life to rise to the surface
Due time, not our time
Always on time
To bud
To unfold
To bloom
Full abandon, whimsy, love.
Bright, bursting hope.

“You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.”― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World