I have a lot of hope in the future. It’s what keeps me going through all the negativity pervading our lives. People are down on everything these days — perhaps because they watch too much cable news — and I want to push the tide in the other direction.
We must learn to live by hope in the midst of all the negativity. Hope in the future, hope in each other, hope in ourselves. Even hope in the government and institutions. But most of all, hope in Christ.
But how, I wondered, do we sustain hope in the midst of so much anxiety and despair? I picked up Keeping Hope Alive
“I am convinced that hope is so close to the core of all that makes us human that when we lose hope we lose something of our very selves.”
“Let me put it as baldly as I can: there is nothing, repeat nothing, more critical for any one of us, young or old or anywhere in between, than the vitality of our hope.”
“…all people hunger for hope because our Maker made us all to live by hope.”
“Worry is hope’s bothersome twin brother.”
“The attitude typical of the person who lives by faith is one of hope.”
“People who have the habit of hope live better than people who have the habit of despair. They are ever so much happier. They respond more effectively to crisis. They are stricken, but not crushed by tragedy.”
So read the book. You’ll enjoy it. And you’ll be encouraged to live by hope. Oh, and it might help to turn off the news.
