Like many others, this past year has been filled with many challenges for me. I am looking forward to a little more joy in 2010. To end the year on a positive note, I went on a six-day driving excursion-- the Hope Angel Tour--with my friend Cat and her daughter Savannah. We were in search of angels to photograph and.....well.... in search of hope.
Hope can be elusive. We all want it. Maybe we all even need it. But there are times in our lives when it just doesn't seem to be evident. So the three of us literally drove to the tiny town of New Hope, Texas. Perhaps the search for New Hope would allow me to replace old hopes of the past--hopes that had changed and altered the path that I was on.
New Hope, Texas is so small that it isn't even on the map we were using. But we found it. And we found the cemetery in New Hope that held one tiny angel. It, too, was so small that I missed it during my first walk through the cemetery. Sometimes that's how hope is too. We can miss it, even when it is right there. As I knelt down to photograph the angel you see above, I felt its message of hope, even with the cloudy, cold weather and the rain that started to fall. Did I find hope? Or did it find me? I guess it doesn't really matter. Hope is always there if we are willing to see it.
