You have Hope but someone tells you to just flush it!

I had an interesting service call the other day from a panic-stricken woman. She had dropped her new necklace she had just received for her anniversary in the toilet. When she could not see the necklace because of other deposits in the toilet she flushed it thinking the necklace would stay and the rest of the stuff would go on down the drain. It didn't work like that though, and the necklace was flushed as well. Worried about what her husband would say when he found out she was calling me for help, hoping that I could somehow retrieve the necklace and save the day. Imagine her surprise when over the phone I instructed her,
"That's an easy fix, go to your toilet, open the lid, place your hand on the handle, now flush your toilet about 10 times."
"What," she gasp. I had a hard time through my laughter explaining that while I was a good plumber, I can't work a miracle. By flushing the necklace once she had sent it down the pipe past arms reach (not that I would have stuck my arm down her pipe) and to retrieve it now would mean ripping up sheet rock or busting up cement to cut open the pipes to find it which in the long run would cost her much more then the necklace and her pride of having to tell her husband.
She then told me that she had so hoped I could give her a miracle. I then told her I just did by helping her avoid a future problem. If she had not flushed the necklace all the way out of her pipes it could get hung up and clog her pipes down the road. That was not what she was hoping for. I told her she could not complain because I gave her the advice for free. 

 Hope is like this situation. When we place our hope expecting a miracle because we think we deserve it, we are likely to be disappointed. Time and time again we place our hope in someone or something expecting a miracles and time and time again we have to just flush it down the drain no matter how much the thing we hoped for meant to us. I am not saying we should not hope in people and things, but I am saying that we should not get so upset at having to flush those results of our bad choosing.
Hope can drive a person to action, give them courage to accomplish a task that seems impossible. Hope helps us to endure a hopeless situation or the loss of a love one. Hope can change us and those we love. But most of all hope inspires faith. Once hope has transformed into faith it has the power to move mountains.  
There is one who you should always place your hope in, and that is your Father in Heaven. One whom always rewards hope with miracles. True these miracles may not come in the manner we are seeking but they come none the less. To hope in God is to be happy and full of life, to give up on him causes anger and sucks the life out of us.
May we all hope through God for more love, happiness, piece, joy, and for better tomorrows then we have had today.
God Bless
Clint G Cox     Copy write 2/16/12