As I sit down to write this week’s post, I can’t help but think of the great Fleetwood Mac song, “Don’t Stop”. As the chorus goes:

“Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be, better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone”

Every time I hear these words, I can’t help but think about the idea of hope and what tomorrow will bring. Whether our days are good or bad, the hope of tomorrow is vital to the journey we each walk. Recently, I was in my car, driving to go pick up dinner and I was having a bit of a hard time. My mind was getting filled with worry and discouragement, both about present circumstances and how everything was going to work out. As this worry was beginning to hit a fever pitch, I stopped and prayed, asking God to help turn my mind around. A few minutes later, as I was scrolling through radio stations, this song came on right at the start of the chorus. As I let those words wash over me, it hit:

I felt the sweet air of tomorrow…

That’s what it felt like, and I think that’s what it feels like for many of us on our difficult days. Bouts of worry and fear begin to fill our mind with lies and it begins to turn the air around us cold with despair. It begins to blind us from hope. But then, as soon as hope for the future enters, it’s like a warm air that breaks the cold and brings us relief.

Many talk about how foolish it is to let our minds live in the future, as it’s just silly daydreaming that distracts and never fully manifests. Of course, we have to live in the present, fully engaged in each day. But hope of the future is not silly daydreaming, it’s speaking into existence the desires of our hearts for the days to come. It can show us the beautiful things ahead on the road that keep us going on the hard days. It reminds us of what we’re moving towards.

So to those of you reading this who are having a tough day, or maybe you’re in a tough season, and you’ve begun to lose hope, just as Fleetwood Mac says, don’t stop thinking about tomorrow cause it’ll soon be here. You have amazing things ahead for you in life, both way ahead in the future and in the immediate. Allow the sweet air of tomorrow to enter your day and reinvigorate your sense of hope.

Hope of tomorrow brings the reason for our persistence today.