Hope is not Crazy

So, this is going to be my first post despite the fact that I have had this url/blogger account for almost a year. I had good intentions when I created it. I was going to write and inspire all those who wandered (or stumbled) onto my blog. I would move them to tears with my words of wisdom and hope. Comments would come flooding in and I would feel good and benevolent. Then I stopped and thought about that....and became depressed. That is never going to happen, who am I kidding? What if all that I write is contrived and the few people who wander onto this space laugh at my words? Things are never as grandiose as we think they are in our heads. So why am I all of a sudden blogging? What makes today special?

...procrastination...

I have a reading assignment due, and I really don't feel like doing it. I am to talk about music piracy, a whole page. A whole, single-spaced page. Single-space in university is just crazy talk! So, I am "taking a break" and getting my creative juices flowing. This is the latest in my line of procrastination techniques which include: shopping, fixing my printer, facebook, online shopping (browsing), facebook, catching up on my usual blog reads and vlogs and of course, facebook.

While I was browsing I came across this awesome vlog by John Green. You may not get the first part, but at about 2:10, John starts talking about hope, and how we need hope, even when it seems insane, hope is what carries us through. Paul talks about this in his letter to the Romans

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ~Romans 5:2-5

on that note,

Goodnight and Godspeed