What does it mean to be hopeful?

Hello everyone. Having read Julyan's post on the last blog I thought it deserved consideration and exploration. Below is Julyan's contribution.

"Hope is an interesting thing; it can be everything from an excuse for doing nothing to the motivating power behind our efforts towards change. In a Christian context it can perhaps have the same range from those who hope for better things but wait for God to intervene to make things right to those for whom, again, hope is that motive power to action. For me, I suppose, hope is that of Christ which I find to be within me, offering a different reality, a different possibility, revealing potential in self, others and situations. It is, I think, the ability (gift) to live with one foot in the realities of the present and the other in a different tomorrow, to know, as I put it in one of my songs, "That what lies before us is more than it seems." Hope is, therefore, a spiritual comfort while also being a spiritual and practical challenge."

I invite you to share your thoughts.

Shalom friends!