Hope Travels

The submissions to this month's One Word Project were truly amazing.  Take a dive into our Picture Hope Flickr Group and be inspired.  These are the images we'll carry with us around the world as Stephanie and I travel to uncover the kind of hopeful stories that can really take our hearts somewhere new.

Leave us the hope note you'd write if you felt sure the just right person would read it.  And of course, any last minute images you'd like to see travel all the way around the globe.

image by natala

Comments

[Claire]

hope is God.

[Cristi]

I hope you get the chance to grow to your full potential without anyone telling you something is impossible.

[kosenrufu mama]

all the life is hope.
http://esterdaphne.blogspot.com/

[meg manion silliker]

there can be true joy in the simple things. keep hope alive with the warm sun on your face.
http://bluelimephoto.blogspot.com/2009/04/pure-delight.html

[Anna/NotAnna]

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

~Mary Oliver (Wild Geese)

[Toni | DailyVignette]

H earts
O pen to love
P revent hate
E verywhere

H earts
O pen
P ride
E ncloses

Dreams are the embodiment of hope.

You're never too old to dream and you're never too old for your dreams to come true.

[shelli - mama of letters]

Sometimes hope is all there is.


http://www.mamaofletters.com/Site/The_Focal_Point/Entries/2009/4/30_HOPE.html

[Karyn]

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

-Christopher Reeve

and I really like this one...

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

-Dorothy Thompson

[Tracey Clark]

there is nothing more hopeful than children. big mama sigh.
http://traceyclark.squarespace.com/blog/2009/4/30/hope-and-love.html

[Chris]

Hope is the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

[Rachel Haynes]

Nothing ever stays the same. As sure as the night follows the day and the day follows the night, change will come.

[sperlygirl]

'hope is how you light your path' ~s.sperl
and hope resides within us ... especially now.
http://www.sperlygirl.com/sperlygirl/2009/04/22-weeks.html

[melody is slurping life]

always hold hope

[claudia]

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. ~Romans 15:13

[Beatriz Kim]

Hope is the foundation of happiness and the result of spirituality.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbybeatriz/3464287873/in/set-72157617070659713/

[elk]

i will be with you in spirit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sammymom/3488785995/

[melody is slurping life]

Hope despite severe abuse...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melsphotophun/3488571587/

His story http://slurpinglife.typepad.com/slurping_life/wil.html

[Heather]

"If it were not for hope, the heart would break."

http://fumblingforwords.blogspot.com/2006/04/just-messing-around-with-photoshop-and.html

[Laura Plouzek]

hope means that there's so much before us, as if it were always a fresh new morning

my morning sunshine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smilinglaura/3388210291/in/set-72157615785662212/

[beth]

hope is a dream waiting to be lived
hope is a wish waiting to me made
hope is a look that feels like a hug
hope is a thought of all the goodness in the world

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29291473@N04/3489031967/

[jody]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodyangel/3468108807/

Love you guys. Can't wait to see what you capture along the way..but remember these words.

There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments
Of lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all

And with all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I loved you more

And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I loved you more

In my life I loved you more

[Tracy]

In each one of us resides a soul that is unimaginably and indescribably beautiful.

An old favorite photo of mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31417716@N00/2605843539/in/set-72157608748936524/

[Rachel]

I never submitted a photo to the One Word Project, but if I had, it might have been this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelpasch/3292301158

[Liz W]

Faith, Hope and Love is what keeps us alive.

[Steph Wiese]

Hope. Hope that even though plans don't pan out as you might have thought they should, something even more miraculous could be growing under your feet. Just take a moment to notice it (and maybe fill some other people in on it as well!).