SEED OF HOPE

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation

A Seed Of Hope
A seed of hope is the beginning of every good thing in our lives. Hope gives birth to the overcoming life. It always believes for the best, even in the face of the worst circumstances. For believers in hope, hope is much more than a wish, yearning or a positive outlook, We can have hope in life no matter what surrounds us, because we need to give hope to those of our brothers/sister who need cares
Recently, we all watched the miracle of Flight #1549. Instead of ending in a disastrous crash, it gracefully landed in the Hudson River in New York City.
The outcome was nothing short of a miracle. In fact, it is being referred to as “the miracle on the Hudson” because all 152 passengers and all the crew survived.
I thought about the passengers and what must have been racing through their minds in those final minutes before the impact. Amid the cries and prayers, I’m confident there was one thing they all desperately held on to — Hope.

Some hoped to kiss their spouse one more time, others to hug their son or daughter, and some to make things right with a friend or family member.
As the plane was about to hit the water, they knew their lives were at stake. Many were praying, and all were hoping for a miracle. Then the impact came and an amazing scene unfolded with passengers streaming onto the wings of the aircraft, soon to be stepping into rescue boats.
As I watched the amazing rescue, I could not help but think of the many people who feel their life is like this “plane”. They feel it is going down, leaving them only to hope that someday things might be different. Let me encourage you!
Perhaps you are facing setbacks with your job or relationships. Maybe you’re struggling financially or the pressures of life are just overwhelming you. If that’s you, there is still hope! God is for you, not against you. His resources are endless, and His power and love know no boundaries. God is on your side. Keep hope alive and never ever give up!
Look up and expect the miraculous keep hope alive.
I am praying for hope to come alive in you. God is a God of more than enough. He doesn’t have any lack. He always has a solution.
God is ready to speak to you, to encourage you and for some, rescue you.

The Power of Hope, and Recognizing When It's Hopeless.
Hope structures your life in anticipation of the future and influences how you feel in the present. Similar to optimism, hope creates a positive mood about an expectation, a goal, or a future situation. Such mental time travel influences your state of mind and alters your behavior in the present. The positive feelings you experience as you look ahead, imagining hopefully what might happen, what you will attain, or who you are going to be, can alter how you currently view yourself. Along with hope comes your prediction that you will be happy, and this can have behavioral consequences.
Hope shapes your methods of traversing your current situation. The cognitions associated with hope--how you think when you are hopeful--are pathways to desired goals and reflect a motivation to pursue goals , Better problem-solving abilities have been found in people who are hopeful when compared with low-hope peers and those who are hopeful have a tendency to be cognitively flexible and able to mentally explore novel situations .
Technically, hope does not fit the criteria as an emotion. These criteria include the concept that emotions are automatic and reflexive, they cause physical and behavioral changes as a result of nervous system responses, and that an emotion provides you with immediate information about a situation that can lead you to take action. Although the concept of hope does not meet these criteria, papers on the subject that have been published in reputable psychological journals have referred to it as an emotional state. Lazarus (1999), for example, has explored the role of hope as an emotion and as a coping resource against despair. Perhaps hope is better understood as a cognition that creates a certain mood--a prolonged affective state--lacking the immediacy and intensity of reflexive emotions yet capable of determining one's outlook on life.
Having hope is to imagine a positive outcome. The directive of many motivational principles is to visualize what you want and imagine positive outcomes so that your behavior is unconsciously structured to create them. However, one does not need to turn to quantum explanations in order to account for the positive effects of hope. Unconscious thought theory postulates that we are able to process information--to get your brain to work on a problem--in a non-conscious way that can lead to bursts of insight. Most of the things we do are unconsciously processed. Thus, considering your endeavors before bedtime, or even going over your to-do list, is worthwhile since your brain is sensitive to your conscious perception of future events and will unconsciously work toward your goals.
Clinical drug trials are a good example of the power of hope. In clinical drug trials a medication is compared with an inactive substance, commonly referred to as a placebo. Recent studies of antidepressants doubt their efficacy when compared to a placebo in double-blind, randomized clinical trials. What's most notable is that in clinical trials where the placebo is engineered to produced side-effects, causing
those who take it to believe that they are on the actual medication, the efficacy of the placebo is similar to that of the medication (Angell, 2011). In a discussion of these studies a friend suggested that, rather than referring to such inactive substances as a placebo, they should instead be called "hope."
The way in which a hopeful person handles disappointment differs from those who are not. Even if the present is unpleasant, the thought of a positive future can be stress-buffering and can reduce the impact of negative events or disappointment. Being unrelentingly optimistic about the future helps you to recognize that you are adaptable and capable, enabling you to reassure yourself that you will get through a tough time. Having a powerful hope that you will adapt also provides a limitlessly positive version of the future. Those who are hopeful and optimistic can make excuses for negative outcomes, while the pessimist may become resentful or negatively preoccupied.
Giving up hope is sometimes prudent in situations where turning your attention elsewhere is necessary in order to actually reach your goal. Continuing to pursue a particular direction where you invariably encounter roadblocks, whether in a relationship, career, or business venture, can obscure other avenues that may lead to achieving an objective. In our culture there is a particular glamour attributed to those who persist, and win, in spite of limited hope for success. At the same time, having the strength to recognize when hope should be relinquished, and the courage to acknowledge your helplessness, can point you in an unsullied direction that is accompanied by new hope.

Hope can affect the way you live
hope help us to eradicate poverty, hardship, disaster , hope is a profound and fundamental appeasement to the solution of our faith that brings us joy, peace, and rest of mind when we are in disaster or poverty .
when I look around me I see people in pain, trouble and in difficult situation course by their fellow being’s and it make me wonder if they are people with heart of animal coverd with human skin , a lot of people, women and children have been renderd homeless due to the wickedness of man when we are ment to provide for one another and also a lot have been affected by natural disaster a lot have been doomed by the mear wickedness of man.
Love is what was placed in us as humans to help guide the activites of man but becaurse of the evil dredful desire of man we killed the love in us and install wickedness and this desire of us prompt us to kill, steal, fight one another and even take shalter away from one another when we were ment to provide for them, let us think , think of our future generation what are they going to inherit from us is it wickedness or love , this is a call for humanity to stand up and do the right thing , what is the right thing if I may ask , the right is to put a smile on someones face give hope to the hopeless, affect life the best way you can , it start with me and you and together we can stop the distruction of life and properties , let us impact love instead of hatered in ourself.

If you put a smile on a child face today you have given you have given millions of people a reason to live , a reason to love you have given the people HOPE
Hope is not just a word,
Hope is a way of life
It has existed from creation
It is not too hard to give
Give it with love
And put a smile on a child face
Let us show the people that with hope
The world will be a better place fill with love