Think About It

Have you ever thought about the difference between faith and hope? Now, just for a minute, I would like to remove this from a spiritual discussion and focus on our day-to-day lives. Faith is having the confidence to believe something that hasn’t happened yet is going to happen. It is less about wondering and more about waiting. Hope, on the other hand, isn’t as much about confidence as much as it is about wanting something and believing it could happen. The expectation might not be there, but the excitement is. Hope is about seeing what is possible and looking forward to it happening – in essence, it is another word for optimism. The reason I being this up is to ask us if we are people of hope. Again, I am not confining this discussion to spiritual matters, I am asking about our perspective. Do we have hope that good things can happen? There are too many of us that have convinced ourselves that the worst awaits us – how much better could our attitudes be if we let ourselves