What is the real meaning of hope? Being people of hope in the middle of darkness The definition of hope according to the dictionary is a “feeling of expectation and desire for aparticular thing to happen” or “a feeling of trust”. One of the most famous quotes on hope from the movie Shawshank Redemption is from Red, a man that has been in prison a long time, not knowing if it will be for life. He says “Hope is a dangerous thing, my friend, it can kill a man…” but also that “Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things. And good things never die.” I’ve heard…

Ecclesiastes 3 tells us that everything has its season. Lessons From The Garden For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the garden – cleaning, weeding,cutting the grass, planting, and watering. As I’ve been diving into all these different tasks withthe goal to have a garden that is both beautiful and functional this summer, I’ve had a coupleof revelations that I wanted to share with you all. How important it is to see the big picture. The first step to do when it’s time to tend to the garden in the spring, at least up here in the north where we have snowy and…

Today we will take a look at some ways we can spend time with God by looking at the life ofone of the influential men that has walked on this earth. A man that had all the reasons tosay that He is too busy, but He didn’t. We are of course talking about Jesus himself. Simplyput: if Jesus spent time with the Father, we need to. There is a saying that time is the money of our time, the thing we feel like we don’t haveenough of, the thing we struggle to manage and feel like it’s a big sacrifice for us to give upany of. We want to use…