Tag Archives: Hope

I remember being eighteen years old and people asking me questions about my future. What college was I going to attend? What course of study or major was I going to pursue? How did I plan to use my degree after graduation? I was excited to talk about the future. ...

Life does not always go the way we expect it or even want it to go. Disappointments happen. I dreamed of being a stay-at-home wife/mother; I am a full-time librarian. I wanted children; I’m unable to have them. I planned to convert my parent’s barn into a house and live ...

‘Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.’  Psalm 43:5 (NIV) Hope is such an important word, a big word.  It’s a word that encompasses our emotions.  It portrays a ...

Remember the Titanic and the ‘tip of the iceberg’?  You never know what lurks beneath and so it is with life.  Things are RARELY what they seem and our faith if no different.  We can talk a good game all day long, but when the rubber meets the road where ...

I started my day yesterday with 101 items on my To Do List. I finished the day with 103 items on the list. I know I worked hard all day, but according to the numbers I did nothing. It doesn’t matter that I accomplished 15 tasks not on the list ...