Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. NIV
Welcome to year two of this project.
I began this journey one year ago today. February 20 was a Saturday, and there was quite a bit of snow on the ground when I sat down to start a blog.
I’d never been a blog reader, and I’m not a twenty-something. But, it seemed intuitively to me to be the right way to catalogue what I hoped would be a year of help and hope and healing.
It has.
If I’d stayed on track with my goal to find one of the Bible’s reminder not to worry each day, I would have finished yesterday. But, there were six days this last year when life got in the way, in one way or another, and I failed to find a reminder, or to write one down on those days.
So, instead of finishing yesterday, my plan is now to finish this coming Friday, with 365 reminders found … in one year plus a little less than one week.
Today, my word search on “hope” has brought me here to Romans.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Joyful in hope … note that it doesn’t say that hope is our last resort. Instead, it is a joyous privilege.
Patient in affliction … Times of affliction are times of learning. If we rush to get through them in order to stop the pain or the inconvenience, we don’t learn. For me, it seems that if I deal with affliction with impatience (or with worry), I’m likely to repeat exactly the same thing that caused my problem in the first place. If I’m patient in affliction, such that I can get to a place of truly accepting my circumstances, God can and will open my eyes to see the world in new and different ways and to learn new things about myself and to see new ways that I can be useful to others who are in need.
Faithful in prayer … I’m called to pray without ceasing, in goods times and in bad. It is through prayer that I can turn my worries over to God; through prayer that I can experience the peace that passes understanding; and through prayer that I can develop a deeper relationship with my Heavenly Father.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
I absolutely want to be these things.
That’s what I’ll think about today.
365 Days of Peace 
I’m glad you have done this! Many days have blessed me or given me something to think about…thanks for following the inclination God layed on your heart…hugs, Cj
Thanks so much for your support throughout! You are such a blessing.
thanks for a very inspirational first year! Helped me through many dark hours…just reading these daily has been transforming, so can scarcely imagine the effect have having written all those God-inspired posts. Praises all around.
Thanks so much, Bill to both you and Chris for your support!
We only ‘joined’ you in June, but it’s been a wonderful journey!
And only six days ‘missed’. That’s pretty amazing!
It HAS been a wonderful journey. Thanks for coming along with me.