“When Hope Feels Deferred”
Hope can often feel distant or even lost when you’re parenting or working with a child who has special needs. There are days filled with more questions than answers—nights that feel endless, moments that feel heavy. You watch the child God has entrusted to you, this amazing soul full of potential, and yet you sometimes feel like you’re failing them. You wonder, “Where is the hope in all of this?”
But then, something shifts.
Maybe God shows you Himself through the smile, laugh, or breakthrough moment of that very child. Maybe He places people in your life—your own Aarons and Hurs—who help lift your weary arms when the weight is too much to bear. Perhaps it’s a reminder in Scripture or a word of encouragement from someone who’s walked a similar path.
Whatever the form, hope is not gone. Even when it seems delayed or hidden, God is still working.
In John 9, the disciples asked Jesus, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither… but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.”
That’s where true hope lies: not in perfection, not in ease—but in God’s glory revealed through every circumstance, every diagnosis, every moment of struggle.
Hold on to that.
Let the word HOPE remind you that even in the hardest days, God has not left you. He sees, He knows, and He is working for His glory and your good.
