Finding hope gets help when you are surrounded with hopeful voices. Stress, panic, and despair will all make finding hope more of a challenge. Recently, the dark place captured me and threatened to drag me down into a deep pit. I clung to the edges of hope, but my grip weakened with each moment. I…
Finding hope through the misty moments of life seems impossible some days. You feel alone. You feel discouraged. You may even feel as though you are drowning. Feelings don’t have the final say in what you choose unless you give feelings that right. You find your hope when you make intentional moves that push past…
Feed the hope to fuel your faith by being around others that have a boldness in their faith. Watching faith at work seeds hope that grows up more faith. It is one more of the reasons that we need to be invested in others because together we fuel the possibilities to be more than we…
It must be a sign. The spinning dots on my screen have to be telling me to stop. Surely those taunting bits of light signal I’m moving in the wrong direction. They certainly scream, “you aren’t moving anywhere,” in this moment. I watch. They spin. All the while I’m getting nothing done that I need…
The hope you seek hides in plain sight. When you look for hope, when you open your eyes to the possibility of hope, when you choose to seek hope then you will find hope. I woke to a Twitter notification feed overflowing. I see you rolling your eyes. “What good can come of a Twitter…
“Your blood should still boil.” The words were shared regarding the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. My gut reaction involved tears instead of anger. Remembering back 17 years ago, it was tears that overwhelmed me. I came home and talked to my son about that day. He was four years old. He still remembers the…
You will find a smile when you seek out hope and joy even in the dark. Smiles and laughter make things better or at least makes things a little easier. No matter where you are or what you are doing, there is a way to laugh – even if only for a moment. My two…
The moment happened. I hit a wall so tall and so wide that it left me wondering if I had taken a wrong turn. I no longer desired to attend church. It felt painful just to be a part of church. The teaching held some flavor, but my rejection of church came from the crushing…
I remember every day. When I let the destruction be my focus, I worry and fear. When I let the love and faith be my focus, I believe and hope and trust. On September 11, 2001, I was on the way to pay bills. I spent the rest of the day in prayer for the…
It can be tough remaining hopeful when faced with the newsfeed I face every day. I work on my computer – which means that my work requires daily online activity which requires that I open my internet browsers. No matter what kind of day I am having, the internet attempts to pull me down into…