most hopeful

Donald Jordan is a social worker by trade, and a wanna-be activist by heart. Graphic designs supports both and wandering guides all.

Donald is privileged to work in administration at Pathways, West Tennessee Healthcare where he has been on the team as a psych tech, case manager, therapist, and manager over the last almost twenty years.

The words below were written when the blog began in August of 2011. After incredibly painful experiences at a church, pushed against learning to balance jobs and stay afloat, the blog began as an effort to remain both hopeful and accountable. 

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The time has come for me to do the work of being most hopeful.

At this moment, I find myself at the worst of times, and also the best. I’m at a juncture where the reality of sadness, stress, joy, excitement, anger, anticipation, thankfulness, and grief are all whirling together with their corresponding stories and corresponding colors. As a friend of mine has said, of all the things I am and feel right now, above all, I am most hopeful.

Day to day, I am likely to be most things other than hopeful. At least by default.

So this is, for me, a call to accountability. A call to be, above all, most hopeful.

Most hopeful about the future.
Most hopeful about the stories that will be told about the past.
Most hopeful about what God is doing in the world.
Most hopeful about how God will bring his church to life to join him.
Most hopeful for the way the stories of pain and sadness will resolve.
Most hopeful about the way the stories of excitement and anticipation will continue.
Most hopeful about the coming of God’s great kingdom. Of God’s great work through Christ in the world.

Above all, I am most hopeful.
And when I am not, I will wait to notice a flicker of hope.

On earth, as in heaven.

We cannot walk alone.

djordan
Pine Tree, August 2011