In preparing to write this meditation, I read sections of three writings: the Book of Job, Second Corinthians and a book titled Hope for the Flowers.
The opposite of hope is despair, a state of life that many people live in all of the time. Hope is both a spiritual feeling and a state of life when we are changed by strength from a higher power.
In the first book to the Corinthians, Paul writes of hope as a spiritual value that goes along with faith and love. In fact, there can be no hope at all without faith and love being experienced.
Reflect on Job’s story -— without his faith in the invisible God and without his love of others, Job would have long given up any hope for further life.
As I began reflecting a central theme to share on Good Friday, I went to a book long kept in my home library. The title of the book is Hope for the Flowers. It is a story about a caterpillar who one day thought that “there must be something more to life than just eating and getting bigger.” He was seeking more but nothing satisfied him. One day as he started climbing he joined with other caterpillars, but it was still not enough. Then he met another caterpillar and they began to climb together. Finally, they found out that they should hang upside down to become a butterfly, which feeds the world by carrying seeds of love from one plant to another.
Today is the day when a hope of resurrection rules the day with seeds of love.
Today is the day of hope.
The Rev. Bill King
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