Hope is not a fruit of life going well. Hope is the antidote to despair; to hopelessness. Hope is trusting in God’s promised future; that God’s Love will have the last word. Hope is the Empty Tomb of Jesus.

Hope is how God shows up through our suffering and pain. Hope is the Divine Presence sustaining and encouraging.

“suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” (Romans 5.3-5)