John Wesley Church - Houston

``Hope is the confident, grace formed trust that God is at work behind what we can see, faithfully leading us toward redemption even through suffering. Hope is not wishful thinking or blind optimism. Hope is the settled confidence that God keeps his promises and that the story is not finished and that the resurrection always has the final word. Hope is trusting God's future more than fearing today's reality. Let me say that again. Hope is trusting God's future more than fearing today's reality. Hope is waking up and choosing to trust that God is still writing our story even when today's chapter hurts.