The Purifying Hope of Hope

The end of the story for us is good and it has to be the thing that we cling to if we're going to be able to handle and navigate the challenges of existence today. Life isn't just hard, it's impossible. It's terminal, as I like to say. Hope is a purifying hope. Finally, our hope needs to be a disciplined hope,. And I'll explain what I mean by that. In Hosea, there's this profound passage in which the prophet speaking to the children of Israel about their unfaithful ways.