Hope?

There's a poster around town these days, "All bad things must come to an end." If you ever saw the show Breaking Bad, then you know about it.

Its an eye catching poster but what brought me to notice it was an eight yr old.

He was walking with his dad and he was reading posters out loud. As soon as he completed the sentence,  he said " well, that's not true! "  his dad came back with "you don't think so?" And this youngen just shook his head.

They walked away from me but their interaction stayed with me.

Since then I have shared this story with quite a few people and some are surprised by the child's reaction, others just shake their head in agreement.

What has happened to HOPE?

I know that for a Christian,  our Hope is in Jesus Christ and in the last week or so I see how the world around me is so far away from that.  By pushing God out of our everyday lives, we have given up Hope and Joy.

I get riled up when I think of how folks talk about taking out "under God" in the pledge. What other authority would you want to be under? Your own?  How do you then find Hope?

Do you hope in yourself?  In a body that breaks down when you push it too hard?  In a mind that can't wrap itself around the universe and its existence?

Why do you believe in Jesus? That's a question that I get often. My answer? He is my Hope when nothing in my life makes sense.  This world, the people in it, my body, and mind will let me down but Jesus never has and so I know He never will let me down.

Love God and the rest will follow.

(That is the HOPE)