Day 330 - A Drop of Hope

"A drop in the ocean, a change in the weather. I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, cuz you are my heaven." -Ron Pope

The above is a line from the song in the video.  I enjoy the whole song, but for the purposes of my thoughts today, the chorus is sufficient.  As the song played this morning, I listened to this chorus, and it made me think about hope.  The song itself is about hoping for and wanting a love relationship, but I think that it can speak to a larger theme.  Hope is a powerful, strong thing as is indicated by the chorus.  Sometimes the odds of getting what we want seems to be like a drop in the ocean or even our ability to change the weather.  We can look at the odds of a situation and think, there's no way in the world we will ever get what we want/desire.  This may be a loved one, a dream, a job, a degree, or some other thing that we have set our heart on. 
The fact that he was praying about it shows that it's something that he really wants.  Yet, he recognizes that his prayers may be like asking for rain in the desert.  To appreciate what this means, I looked up info on rainfall in the desert: "By definition, a desert gets less than ten inches of rain per year. Some deserts get no rain for hundreds of years."  So those are the odds that he's looking at... But hope won't let him let her go.  He chooses to hold her close to his heart, hoping, wishing, praying, because there is something in her that he refuses to let out of his life.  He calls her his heaven, which indicates a place of pleasure and delight, the ultimate fulfillment.  
So, whether you are hoping for someone you love to reciprocate and take that step toward you, for that dream job to be yours, for that promise you've been waiting on to be fulfilled, I pray that you find the strength to hold to hope in the midst of and in spite of what looks like the odds of a thunderstorm in the middle of the Sahara.  There is reason for your hope, even if it is just to make you stronger and to build your faith.  But I'm fairly certain that in the end, you will receive the desires of your heart (even if they look a little different than you initially pictured them).  And remember, "it will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, then it's not the end."