Motivation is not meaning, but it is certainly part of it. And the more nearly fundamental the motivation, the better it is at organizing the swelter of experience. This is one reason why myth is so powerful. Myth boils motivation down to its core. Its basic motivation elements are templates for the raw, often chaotic data of our everyday existence.
Myth is a means to meaning.
Any writer can obviously identify with the having both faith and hope. But in the writer's life, as in the Epistle, the most important thing is love. Love for the act of creation. Love for the word. Love for reaching out both to our deeper selves and to others.