Sometimes, the "real world" makes it very clear that you can't rely on ideals. When everything you are hoping for doesn't work out; when you are forced to constantly re-evaluate your direction, your goals, your plans. In those times, you feel a dynamic tension between what you want, and what you think will really come about.Hope is a funny thing. Delicate. Fragile. Powerful. Igniting. I once read from Brennan Mannings book "Ruthless Trust" that hope is the marriage of faith and trust. Faith that believes not everything is as its seen. Trust that God will indeed work out all things for our good. Hope comes about as we practically live these beliefs.
And hope is the most powerful force of endurance known to mankind.
Jocelyn and I have been working together on the project "Risk Love" - a multimedia piece promoting Adoption from the Foster System. Originally, we "hoped" to complete the piece in 6 weeks. We worked tirelessly with multiple meetings, shoots with children, and long phone brainstorm sessions. While extreemly busy personally, the piece was a priority.
But sometimes, you can do everything possible to complete something, and find that there are many factors outside your control.
The piece came to a halt. We waited for photos and contacts. Health issues and communications. Two months passed without the means or opportunity of finishing.
During this time, we never believed the piece wouldn't be finished. In fact, the opposite was true.
We knew we had to finish it.
In the US, there are 114,000 children who are ready for adoption. Any child who spends a single night in Foster Care is labeled "special needs". This definition is not what we automatically may think. The "special need" of these kids is complex, but the bottom line is this:
They need a mommy and daddy.
The kids in Foster Care understand the conflict of hope. They hope that someone will choose them. Love them. Want them. They live every day with the hope that "this will be the day". The live every day with this hope disappointed.
Hope is resilient because it rests on the belief that what is to come will be better.
RevMedia wants to help these kids.
For we believe in hope.
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