Hope

Beautiful Things

Lisa looks out her kitchen window and frowns as she sees her five-year-old daughter, Katelynn, playing in the dirt on the side of the house.  “Not again,” she mutters.  “How many times do I have to tell her to stay out of that nasty pile of mud?”   She finishes placing the last dish on the… Continue reading Beautiful Things

Hope

To hope is to be vulnerable

To hope for something – especially something I know can only come from God – makes me feel vulnerable.  To feel vulnerable is to be susceptible to being wounded or hurt.    I have found that it is during the wait when hope hurts. Proverbs 13:12 (New Living Translation) says: Hope deferred makes the heart… Continue reading To hope is to be vulnerable