When You Get Your Hopes Up
What happens when you get your hopes up just to have them come crashing down? Do you lose hope all together or do you keep hoping for whatever it is? I can say that I have lost most of my hope when it comes to dating. There have been too many times in my dating life that I got my hopes up that the guy was going to work out, only to have my hopes smashed to the ground. It’s sad to say, but now when and if I go on a date, I have no hopes whatsoever. There may be a very small part of me that may have some hope left, but I don’t even notice it if there is. It’s just too hard to keep getting my hopes up and have them squashed. A lot of people throughout my life have made lots of promises that have made me get my hopes up about one thing or another and the majority of the time, they never followed through. I have to remind myself that God is the only One I can put my hope in and He won’t let me down. He may not always give me whatever it is I’m hoping for, but if He doesn’t it’s only because He has something so much better planned for me. It’s hard to remember that though, after having my hopes shot down by so many people, for so many things, to even place my hope in God. I keep giving God human aspects, believing that He is just like the people who have let me down in my life. Not everyone in my life has let me down, I don’t mean to make it sound like that. But we will all be let down by people in our lives and we will let others down. It’s inevitable, we’re not perfect no matter how hard we try. God will never let us down though, so we can place all of our hope in Him and trust that He will give us everything we need. Can you think of a time when someone really let you down and squashed your hopes? What about a time when you let someone else down? How do you keep your hope in situations when you keep having it smashed to the ground? I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to have any kind of hope in my dating situation, but I can hope 
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