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This is what I made at the conference. “While my grief scorches the canvas, my tears are collected in a bottle.” Psalm 56:8

Creating Hope

July 10, 2025 by Pam Luschei

After college, I worked with children with special needs in a child development center. One of the activities I would create for the children was an art project, usually with a theme or related to the season of the year. I remember distinctly that it was all about the “process, not the product.”

Earlier this year, I attended a conference where I was a participant in a large group doing an art activity using paints and a 5 x 7 canvas. When I sat down, the facilitator led me, step by step, to create an image following her instructions. The next day, I had some free time and found myself returning to the paints and canvas to create my own image. Finding myself looking at a blank canvas, I took the paint and began the process.

I didn’t have a plan in mind, but allowed myself to pay attention in the discomfort of not knowing what was next. It was a familiar feeling I experienced shortly after my husband suddenly died. I had no clue what was next. But I did know I needed to find some hope.

Hope is like a dimmer switch, slowly illuminating the dark space we find ourselves in after our loss. Hope, like the painting I made, didn’t form in one swoop. Hope emerged and inched its way into my soul as I took the next step, did the next thing, and trusted what I didn’t know yet.

What we can’t see yet, but know is coming, is hope.

It requires a level of trust where we move forward, still grieving, but holding on and creating hope one step at a time. Trusting God in the unknown, while knowing we are loved, seen, heard, and known by our Abba Father, will create the hope we need.

‘‘Grateful Yet Grieving’’

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July 10, 2025 /Pam Luschei
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