Hold on to Hope

I saw the moon setting

As I drove to work

Early this morning.

It hung over the horizon,

Round and orange,

Its beauty suspended

Over the blackness of trees

The shadows of houses.

The full moon

Reminds me that life goes on

Even in the midst

Of chaos, of grief,

Of confusion or hopelessness.

Hold on to hope, to beauty,

To love, to the assurance

That no matter what we face,

God is there beside us, saying,

"You are my beloved."