Finding Hope on a Messy Road
If I may say so, honestly, without complaining, it has become quite a challenge to find my way to work lately. It seems that every street I re-route to, there is new construction. Near my house, they started some piping project months ago. Barrels go up, barrels go down. It changes from day to day, but all I really want to see is paving trucks. The road is such a mess. You can imagine my excitement when my husband came home and told me the paving trucks are out! Yay! I thought it was a project that wouldn't happen until next year, but at last, my painful waiting will soon be over. There's something about being given hope that changes one's perspective. I have moved from grumbling to happy anticipation. The way I see it, we need hope today. People are angry, discouraged, frightened, anxious and down-right sad. So where do we find hope? Well--and I don't want this to sound cliche--we find hope in Jesus. It is from God that we find hope and when thing