Bishop Allan Kiuna: Hope is all you need to have a better tomorrow

Martin Luther King Jr . Photo: Courtesy

The world has never forgotten Dr Martin Luther King Jr. That is why on January 19 each year, the world celebrates Dr King’s life, one of the most influential personalities of all time.
Dr King Jr was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
One of his most outstanding messages was one of hope to the black people of America. He inspired so much hope that by it, the American society was transformed from racial segregation into one of the most advanced human rights records.
Despite the shame and embarrassments that he suffered, he preached a prophecy of hope to modem America.

“I have a dream,”
he said, “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Today, that is no longer a wish, because through hope, it came to pass.
Hope is the ability to look forward to something with reasonable confidence. It is the feeling that permits us to see beyond the waiting process into the fulfillment of what we await. Hope is not potent until there is an impasse, a challenge, a problem of ‘life and death’ proportions.
Until a predicament threatens your comfort, hope may just be another word from England. In fact, the truest display of hope is when helplessness kicks in. Where everything else may fail, hope is the ‘last man standing’ in the ring of the fight of your life. Crisis is not bad; it is good.
It is a deception that a problem has been sent to destroy you. While pain proclaims that you are finished, hope declares that: “This too shall pass.”
Hope pulls tomorrow’s success into today’s failure, thereby drowning the shame and embarrassment of a botched up ‘now moment’, with the audacity of hope in tomorrow’s better outcomes.
It eliminates the saturation of today’s defeat by diluting the pain of loss with a record of tomorrow’s victories. It diffuses the concentration of the ‘right now’ pain and inconvenience by reminding us of tomorrow’s sweetness in advance. Hope is every legend’s last card; the reason we smile when life demands we should cry.

Hope constantly defies the gravity of your fall and refuses to sign your dismissal letter from this life, when and if life demands it! It probably is the only thing that stares death in the face and argues for you; triumphing over death and allowing you to live to fight another day.
Hope is the GPS-system; the road-map and compass that locates you in the direction of fulfillment. There is no prison for you other than the one you have accepted by undermining the power of hope. Your present stress is not the definition of who you are. The present failure is not the description of what you will become. Pain is not a prophecy of a destiny, but a foretelling of gain, if hope can only be used as the thread that weaves together the waiting process. Hope is the transport from your current station of failure to your greatness, because failure is not a person; it is an event!
Stop believing the wind, the rain, the storm and the heat: the threat is not more powerful than the promise of a brighter day. You must overcome the vibes of stereotypical wrong expectation and believe the sole whisper of the promise of a better life. Remember that hope makes the difference between ‘should have been’ and ‘now is.’ All other things may freeze or boil, at the cold, the pressure or the heat of life, but hope never, ever disappoints! Invite hope and watch your life crawl, walk then run towards victory!
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