Hope is an emotion...

Loved this! I wanted to share excerpts from this talk.

 Steven E. Snow

"Hope is an emotion that brings richness to our everyday lives...
As such, hope brings a certain calming influence to our lives as we confidently look forward to future events...
Our hopes can lead to dreams which can inspire us and lead us to action. If we have the hope to do better in school, that hope can be realized by dedicated study and sacrifice. If we have the hope to play on a winning team, that hope can lead to consistent practice, dedication, teamwork, and ultimately success....
Hope can inspire dreams and spur us to realize those dreams. Hope alone, however, does not cause us to succeed. Many honorable hopes have gone unfulfilled, shipwrecked on the reefs of good intentions and laziness...
We should never let hope be displaced by despair. The Apostle Paul wrote that we “should plow in hope” (1 Corinthians 9:10). The exercise of hope enriches our lives and helps us look forward to the future. Whether we are plowing fields to plant or plowing through life, it is imperative we, as Latter-day Saints, have hope."

Life is full of disappointments and situations that require patience for things to change. All I know is that there is only one thing in this life that is constant. One thing that will endure and continue. The love of our Heavenly Father and his Son, our savior Jesus Christ which is manifest through the gospel and their church. Everything else will pass away. Everything else can  be destroyed by who knows what. But the truths that lie in the Gospel of Jesus Christ are eternal.