1. a feeling and expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen

2. a person or thing that may help or save someone

3. grounds for believing that something good may happen

archaic - feeling of trust.

What is hope?

I really can't give you a definition.

But I can tell you what it isn't...

- fear

- anxiety

- distrust

- anger

- bitterness

I have recently understood that this hope thing comes every day... you can't just have it once and have it forever.

I have to continually accept that I need God. That I don't have hope without Him.

I learned that hope isn't about me just fixing things, it's much deeper than that.

A dear friend asked me what hope was. I couldn't answer. I couldn't explain the joy from it. Just like I can't explain what it is about sitting under the blue sky on a sunny summer day that makes me not be able to stop smiling.

It is peace... which when I think about that - I can't explain either.

what I am asking my friend to do is to seek hope. Even though I don't know how to express in words what hope is, I do know where I find it. In the cross. In the fact that it's not about me and all about the glory of God. I find hope in the fact that I don't have to 'fix' things on my own - for the simple reason: I CAN'T. and neither can you.... remember that.

It's Christ through us... and we need Him so badly - each day, each minute, each second.