Have you ever found yourself trying to come up with something inspirational to pull you out of the funk you're in? Maybe it's a sentence that you believe will give you hope or a prayer you find yourself praying in tough times, but no matter what it is, somehow it gives you hope, if just for a second or two.
Why is it so easy to find these little things that will give us hope when we really search for it, but some obstacles we face in our lives make us feel like we hit a brick wall and there is no way around it? Is it that some things cannot be cured with a little hope, or we just haven't looked for it yet?
I started examining the "brick walls" in my life to see why they make me lose hope. As I began looking a the big things in life that stress me out versus the little worries sprinkled in my day, I began to see that maybe it is the size of the brick wall that determines the amount of hope we can still have. Sure, it is easy to believe you can make it over a brick wall when it is two feet high, but when it is eight or nine feet tall we no longer consider climbing over the wall, overcoming it, to even be an option. We try to find side routes. We look for little detours we can take. We've lost that hope that overcoming it is still an option.
Shouldn't it be those times when the wall is too tall to clime alone that we depend on hope and prayers for a little extra lift? We depend on those little things to lift us up when we have all the strength we need to make it over the wall, but those times when we need someone or something to help us see what is on the other side of the roadblock we are facing, we don't ask.
Sometimes all it takes is a little hope, a little prayer, and a little lift to make it over the biggest obstacles.
