Save Room For Hope

Life is hard. Life is really hard.

Right now I'm stressed about approximately ten billion things. My body, heart, and mind are constantly exhausted. There are things I want that I can't have yet and things I don't want that I'm buried in, but through it all, I think back to the beginning of the year, when I made a decision.

There may be some days when you want to throw in the towel. When your body is tired and your heart is empty and your spirit is spent.

When these times come, feel free to cry. To be mad. To throw your homework across the room and scream into a pillow. 

But do not give up hope.

Life is constantly changing. 
You will never be stuck in one place for long. 

This hill, this obstacle, these blows that keep knocking you down, they will all fade. The sun will come out again. Your grades will recover or you'll realize they weren't what mattered most anyways. You will figure out which classes to take and how to buy groceries with pocket change and which career to pursue and even how to do this whole dating thing. Sickness, heartbreak, and emotional distress will all be resolved and you will have peace again.

If your heart is anything like mine, it is full of a hundred different desires, a hundred different worries, and a thousand people to love, and you might feel like you're coming up short everywhere you turn.


 Within that jumbled mess of light and dark, 
known and unknown, true and false,
always save room for hope.