Hope is a Golden Cord - Sarah Young

Hope is a golden cord connecting you to heaven.

This cord helps you hold your head up high, even when multiple trials are buffeting you.

I never leave your side, and I never let go of your hand.

But without the cord of hope, your head may slump and your feet may shuffle as you journey uphill with Me.

Hope lifts your perspective from your weary feet to the glorious view you can see from the high road.

You are reminded that the road we're traveling together is ultimately a highway to heaven.

When you consider this radiant destination, the roughness or smoothness of the road ahead becomes much less significant.

I am training you to hold in your heart a dual focus: My continual Presence and the hope of heaven.

   -- From Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12

And surely I am with you always...

Matthew 28:20

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

and never stops -- at all.

And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard
And sore must be the storm -- that could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land and on the strangest sea
Yet, never in Extremity
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson