October 2

“Prisoner of hope”. Wow – that really hit me today. Thinking about it… a prisoner is one who is captive, one who is held behind bars and is limited by his captor. He can’t come and go as he wants because of the prison that he is in. He doesn’t have the key to get out because only the jailer has the keys to the prison – it’s like he can’t get out.

Hope is not our thinking of “I hope it happens”, like you are wishing something. Hope is a surety that something will happen. So when these two words are put together with of, which denotes possession, it is a great picture of where I want to be. To be locked up in surety sounds wonderful to me. It seems like I am too often locked up in “wish” or “doom” and not enough hope. I have got to find that prison and check in! What do I have to do to be sentenced to that jailhouse? Whatever it is, I will find it and commit whatever act I need to in order to be incarcerated by hope.