Sunday Collect – May 8, 2022
What Gives Me Hope
Safety
A home
A room
Sunlighlight streaming in through the curtains
Music
Dance
Children laughing, learning, summer camp
Collaboration
It's no longer hoping
For the strength or talent of writer or sketch artist
To be able to tell my story
It's no longer probing the wounds of childhood or
Reliving unintentionally quiet abandonment
It's seeing what I see, and
Having the sense to love myself enough
To put myself with friends who see it too
It's rest for the vigilante watcher of adults
It's no longer hope of having
An unbroken family or fatherhood, or
Belonging to a denomination or club
It's no longer in never being alone again
Although I hope not!
What Gives me hope is the company of people who see like I do
Anywhere I find them
What Gives me hope is being able to avoid places, spaces and people when it's time
Money gives me hope now. It never used to.
Paying child support gives me hope.
Supportive, affirming work, opportunity for enough apt work and the strength to do enough of it gives me hope
Food and health
Someone who loves me gives me hope
Shining my sunshine gives me hope
Recognizing it in us gives me hope
Beautiful… deeply vulnerable. Thank you 🙏🏾
I love this translation of the Lord's Prayer. Beautiful.
What Gives Me Hope
Safety
A home
A room
Sunlighlight streaming in through the curtains
Music
Dance
Children laughing, learning, summer camp
Collaboration
It's no longer hoping
For the strength or talent of writer or sketch artist
To be able to tell my story
It's no longer probing the wounds of childhood or
Reliving unintentionally quiet abandonment
It's seeing what I see, and
Having the sense to love myself enough
To put myself with friends who see it too
It's rest for the vigilante watcher of adults
It's no longer hope of having
An unbroken family or fatherhood, or
Belonging to a denomination or club
It's no longer in never being alone again
Although I hope not!
What Gives me hope is the company of people who see like I do
Anywhere I find them
What Gives me hope is being able to avoid places, spaces and people when it's time
Money gives me hope now. It never used to.
Paying child support gives me hope.
Supportive, affirming work, opportunity for enough apt work and the strength to do enough of it gives me hope
Food and health
Someone who loves me gives me hope
Shining my sunshine gives me hope
Recognizing it in us gives me hope
Beautiful… deeply vulnerable. Thank you 🙏🏾
I love this translation of the Lord's Prayer. Beautiful.