Hope

This past year a family friend of ours lost his wife to cancer and his son in a hunting accident. The following is an amazing exerpt from his latest blog entry. His wife wrote this last year around this time. She had struggled for years with a very aggresive type of cancer. The words really spoke to me....I just had to share them with you.

“We were created for hope. Our bones were bred for hope. Our lungs can't breathe, our hearts won't beat and our spirits can't thrive without it. God placed us in a world over which we have little control. And as if to compensate for this helplessness, He placed in our souls the capacity to hope-to hope for better times, to dream of better places, to pray for better outcomes, to seek better ways through life. Hope is more than optimism. Optimism is what we generate. Hope is God given, a powerful,
spiritual and psychological means for transcending the circumstances.

Hebrews 6:19 tells us that Christian Hope is a "sure and steadfast anchor for the soul." But this hoping come only as a gift of grace and is powerfully linked to the promises of God. In fact, they are inseparable. Because you believe God's promises you can hope in the future. Without this future, there is nothing to hope in. There is only fear and fear that leads us to a very dark place.”

If you'd like to read more of thier story, check out thier webpage
http://www.carrieshealth.com/updates.html