Hope as an anchor for your soul

Recently, my 7-year-old Will and I were checking on his sunflower he planted in the backyard a few months ago.

“Look, Mom, the other plant beside it is giving the sunflower hope!” he told me enthusiastically. His sunflower stood several inches higher than another sunflower beginning to sprout right beside it.

I was so proud of his insight and how amazing it was for him to think about the simple and profound truth in how much we need each other. And not only that, how we also need hope in order to grow.

From infancy, we have hope that we’ll be fed, loved and cared for as we experience the warmth from our mother’s chest. As a child on the elementary school playground, we have hope that someone will relate to us and call us friend. When we’re in high school, we have hope that we’ll pass hundreds of tests to make it into a good college. No matter our age, we all hope for what we can’t see.

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