Protect Your Hope
God’s been speaking to me about protecting my hope. I encounter hopelessness in others and sometimes in myself. Nothing inspires hopelessness like the conversations I end up having when people start asking detailed questions about my son’s brain tumor. I fight to stay hopeful. I was talking with someone last week about it and they were asking me if it was ok to share some of what was going on with others so that they too could be praying for my son. As I answered I could feel that my response was a bit foreign to them. I said it was alright as long as you emphasize what God IS doing, instead of just what is “wrong”. As long as you talk equally about how courageous and amazing he is being in the midst of this. As long as there is “equal or more” time given to the goodness of God in the journey and the hope that is sustaining us. I went on to explain that Phil and I feel called to live in hope and we’ve got to protect that . It can become wearisome to encounter the