Hope
What it is telling youIt has gotten better before. That is your evidence that it can again.
How He Sees It.
Eric’s hope is built from memory. When he cannot see how a hard season could improve, he thinks back to earlier ones he could not see past either, and to how they turned out, sometimes better than he could have imagined.
He does not ask for the whole picture. A glimpse is enough.
On Hope, Word for Word.
Each line links to the moment it was said or written.
“If life has gotten better for me in the past, there’s no reason it’s not going to do it again.”
“That glimpse is enough. It’s hope.”
“Truly, I feel like the best is absolutely yet to come, because I know that I’m improving myself every single day.”
What He Does With It.
Recalls the low points that later worked out, as proof rather than as comfort.
Episode 7: Where Confidence Comes From, Following Our Own Timelines, and MorePairs hope with effort: faith that life works out, and doing his best so that it can.
Episode 7: Where Confidence Comes From, Following Our Own Timelines, and MoreRemembers that his lowest moments shaped the person he is proudest of.
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