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What Is Your Hope?By Paul Hayden June 29, 2026What is it that you hope for? What is your hope? Are you hopeful - filled with hope? Hope can be quite temporal and immediate, as in hoping to have good weather today or tomorrow. Or it can be intermediate in time, as when we might hope for a good gardening season, or that certain plans play out right for a trip or a visit from a loved one to happen soon. Ongoing hope in life can be a way of thinking, almost embedded in one's nature throughout their life. It would be the person whose cup is “half full,” compared with the person with less hope whose cup tends to be “half empty," as the old saying goes. All too often these days, things happen or come up that can serve to dash our hopes, especially for our future. Things can seem to work against us, or against those we love, in life. At those times, it is always welcome to know someone who is “hopeful,” full of hope, or at least who has a lot of hope for themselves, and some to share with others. Personally, I believe that faith in God is especially what inspires and grows hope in us. There is something about Life that just wants to keep on living. You can observe this in animals as well as in the plant kingdom. A tree can be cut down, its trunk cut into sections for processing in a sawmill, and even then, it might try to send down new roots to continue its life. I actually had that happen with an elm log on our property. Roots grew from it down into the ground, and a new tree came into being from a log. It grew to about ten feet tall, as I recall, before it needed to be dealt with. Humanity inherently has hope grown into the deepest parts of our collective being. I have heard it said that every new baby born is a sign that God wants the human race to keep on going. Do you need more hope in your life? It sure couldn't hurt! The very God Who made you, wants you to have all the life you can have, filled with as much knowledge and awareness of His love as you can stand. If you need anything, or want to know more about this, pray and ask God first, and be in touch with me anytime for whatever reason. God loves you, and I will do whatever I can to love you, too! GOD BLESS US ALL!
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 Paul Hayden is a Christian believer, and an American patriot, necessarily in that order. He is a student of the Bible, and is avidly interested in our role in the context of history, as understood through the heart and eyes of faith. Paul has lived and traveled somewhat widely, and now lives in the heartland of the U.S. (central Illinois), with his wife Donna - they have five grown children. Since December of 2016, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of www.ConservativeTruth.org."I was raised by a Christian minister, Kenneth Hayden, until his death when I was 10. Then my mom Bonnalee Hunt Hayden married a farmer. So I was raised in a very down-to-earth home. My faith has grown through the years, but both in conjunction with the institutional church and through small groups and individuals, including books as well as group settings, where deep, sincere faith is shared that aligns with Biblical truth."
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