The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced.
(Isaiah 50:7)
A man with hope does not get tangled up with concerns for how his wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, his prayer is not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. His is not a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in the giver of all good things. You wish that... but you hope for... For the prayer of hope, it is essential that there are no guarantees asked, no conditions posed, and no proofs demanded, only that you expect everything from the other without binding him in any way. Hope is based on the premise that the other gives only what is good. Hope includes an openness by which you wait for the other to make his loving promise come true, even though you never know when, where or how this might happen.
Lord, teach me this Holy Week to live in and learn from your attitude of patient suffering.
From Renewed for Life, Daily Lenten Meditations
from the works of Henri J. M. Nouwen
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