There's always hope if you look for it
- Kyle Snyder: Live on Purpose
- May 15, 2025
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“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
—Aristotle
Last night Stacey asked me what I was going to write about this week. I said, “I don’t know.” Then my eye fell upon the phrase, “There is hope,” which is written on a whiteboard hanging in our living room. She told me hope would be a good subject to write about.
I have no idea how many times I have written about hope. In fact, believe it or not, next month will be Live on Purpose’s 14th year. I have written about hope so many times I lost count. However, I remember hearing Charles H. Spurgeon preach on a subject thousands of times throughout his long career.
What is hope? I think that is a great question. We hear the term wishful thinking. To me, that implies the thing we wish for is not likely to happen. Hope, on the other hand, is something bigger. Maybe I am an idealist, but hope to me is when everything is telling us that most likely nothing will work out, and we have this feeling that somehow it will.
We have to be like detectives and look for clues. I thought I would never be able to work or get married, but clues kept popping up. Someone talked to a business owner about me, or I saw a disabled person who is married. All these things were clues of hope for me.
Let me ask you a question: Are you missing the rays of hope God is letting shine on you? We love to be busy, so much so that it can almost become our god. We replace the one true God with the god of being busy.
Before I go any farther, I know people who like to stay busy, myself included. Don’t be so busy that you miss out on the rays of hope God is giving. People tell me they don’t see any hope. Are they looking for it? We find a small percentage of what we don’t look for.
Has this happened to you? You want a specific type of car, then it seems like overnight everyone is driving that car. Hope works in the same way; we have to go out looking for it.
The internet is a good way to get hope if we are careful. There are videos online of people with no arms driving a car, heartfelt stories of people overcoming addiction.
We can look at what the odds are of our fears happening. I thought I wasn’t in the middle class, but I looked, and I am. I can’t tell you what that did to my self-esteem. I dare you to look for hope. Something tells me the results will be unbelievable.
Kyle Snyder can be emailed at kylesnyder86@yahoo.com.