life and love
Life can be difficult. At times, burdens, disappointments, and uncertainties can seem too difficult to bear. Poet Annie Johnson Flint poignantly captured the struggles of life in her poem “One Day at a Time”:
hope is not optimism
Hope, the kind the Bible talks about, is not optimism.
Don’t get me wrong. I love optimists. They tend to live longer than pessimists, accomplish more, and are just a lot more fun to be around. A pessimist can hardly wait for the future so they can look back with regret. Optimists can hardly wait for the future because they…
