Of the entire word list (on my canvas wallhanging), the word HOPE is written the smallest and appears the most obscure. Can you even see it on the small picture in the right hand corner of my blog? This is interesting to me, because as far as "meaning"
HOPE might be THE MOST powerful word on the list.
Since I try not to come across too "heavy" in my posting, which I have to be conscience about because some of the words on this list can really get me going, or thinking, and I'm afraid I could get carried away. I'll begin by giving a "shout out" to the small, but ever busy T-shirt business of mine.
Over the years I have printed a gazillion shirts with art of many styles and designs. I haven't really thought about it a whole lot until now, I guess T-shirts are printed and worn... to be trendy, to advertise, to make a statement, to unify or identify a group, there are many reasons people bring T-shirt orders to me. I believe I can say, among all the shirts I have printed, there has only been ONE design with "one" word as the theme, even with a definition on the back....that word was "HOPE". It was the vision of my dear friend Susan Duffin who was/is the camp director for the Hermosa Vista Stake girl's camp. Under Susan's leadership and inspiration over three hundred young women and leaders sported a t-shirt as they descended upon Camp LoMia 2011 stating "Hope Everlasting"!
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| (This is the back of the T-shirt) |
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| "Older" girls serving as young leaders, (FYI - they are beautiful INSIDE too) |
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| Darling bright eyed young girls ready to take on camp! |
I'll get back to the spiritual "hope" that the T-shirts were representing later in the blog. I like the definition on the shirt that includes the idea of "expectation of good".
I looked through the photos I have taken over the last few months wondering if any of them could illustrate "HOPE" (for me)?
I came up with this one.........
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| Cannon's FIRST Birthday |
And this one.......
A mother and grandmother finds HOPE in the faces of her family.
And this one....
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| Is it just me or can you associate HOPE with this photo?......(Emily rocks!) |
HOPE - is in the eyes, hope is light.....
This next picture perhaps illustrates the opposite of hope......
despair after the crucifixion of Jesus on Calvary.
But the tomb was EMPTY......and "HOPE" through Jesus Christ was extended to all mankind.
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| Til we meet again....Gary with Jacque Fryer, wife of cousin Larry Fryer |
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| Painting by Carl Bloch, Denmark 1873, I saw his art in a traveling exhibit at BYU - AMAZING! |
"Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of HOPE, and a love of God and of all men." (As taught in the Book of Mormon) 2 Nephi 31:20
"And what is it that ye shall have "HOPE" for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have HOPE through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise." Moroni 7:41
Hope is.......Hope IN Jesus Christ.
