Faith, Hope, Love — A Healthy Hope

6 09 2006

Signs and postersI Corinthians 13 says that three things remain — faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love.  Yet, we all need hope.

People often commit suicide for loss of hope.  Hope is a belief and a trust in future happiness, that things will work out for good.  When we choose to stare at the negative things in life and when we focus on all the evidence that things are horrible and will get worse, it is easy to lose hope and become depressed.  Often disappointments get our full attention when they are still fresh, open wounds.

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