Working on the “Inn-Side”
Today I’d like to visit the room of hope and see how that room is for you these days.
Our community has a bit of a buzz circulating these days with hope about this year being the year of the Super Bowl Colts. I am writing this devotion while the 2009-2010 Colts are still undefeated. I sense that a loss will dampen the optimism in the conversation and instead, pessimism will start ringing in the air. But hope will return when the team finishes out the regular season with 14 or so wins.
Weekly I sit at Cancer and Grief Support groups, listening to the heart songs of 50 to 80 people a week. People gather around tables dealing with the realities of cancer and loss in their lives. I must tell you HOPE is present in powerful ways! There are newly diagnosed folk hearing people who have been living for more than 10 years since their cancer treatment began. There are new grievers who hear people talk honestly about the grief journey they've been on for years. People leave group with some light rays of hope!
As you view the “inn-side”, how is your room of hope?
--Ben Keckler
12.23.09
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