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keeping hope alive

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Keeping Hope Alive, by Lewis Smedes

I have a lot of hope in the future. It’s what keeps me going through all the negativity pervading our lives. People are down on everything these days — perhaps because they watch too much cable news — and I want to push the tide in the other direction.

We must learn to live by hope in the midst of all the negativity. Hope in the future, hope in each other, hope in ourselves. Even hope in the government and institutions. But most of all, hope in Christ.

But how, I wondered, do we sustain hope in the midst of …