Everyone has been there at some point in life. Yet, often you feel alone. Walking over to mail some of my books today, I got to thinking how easy it is to lose hope. Rain was dripping on my face as my umbrella was not working at all. Too many rainstorms I'd say. In my mind it might reflect how it feels on a hopeless day. Things don't work as they should. People let you down or maybe even your job is on the line.

Hope may not seem like a big deal to you at the moment, but it is. You need a hope to get up in the morning and to keep going. Hope is the belief that things will get better.

When I was 12 and everything in my life seemed to fall apart, I was without hope. It seemed no one cared my dad had left us. My mom was overwhelmed trying to care for my sister and I. Where do you go when hope is absent? A day without hope is like a rainy day and sleeping in seems more inviting then getting up to face the day.

It was then I started to write in my diary "Dear Jesus" instead of Dear friend. There comes a day when we need to look beyond ourselves. I know that there are a lot of people who say you need to look within. Well, when I looked within, all I could see was a train wreck. I needed someone bigger and that someone bigger was not secretly stored away inside me. Jesus did not make my life perfect,rather He brought peace where there was only despair and hope where frankly, there was none.

When you think about your own life, how are you doing really? Do you feel lost? Unnoticed? Call out to Jesus. He will come to you just like He came to me. I was no one special. Just a girl with a broken heart in need of hope and healing. Don't get Jesus mixed up with people. In the Bible, you will find a book there called Mark. as you read it,you will find out just who He really is. He hung out with pretty messed up people of all ages. God promises you and me, if we look for Him with our whole heart ,we will find Him. He has buckets of hope to fill your life with..honestly. You matter to Him.