Living on Hope

What is it you’re hoping for right now? When we talk about hope we’re usually thinking of things we want now or something we think might happen. When you’re young and it’s Christmas your hope is in getting that thing you really want on Christmas. As get older we start to hope for different things in our lives. We hope certain things happen or we hope certain people come through for us. Unfortunately most of things we put our hope in eventually let us down. Sometimes we just don’t get the thing we hope for OR maybe we do get the thing we hoped for only to find out it’s just not as good as we thought it’d be. As Christmas approaches and you see this word “Hope” on everything….in well lit signs, and Christmas cards, and ornaments we have to ask:

How can we have real hope without expecting disappointment?