We live in a world where bad news surrounds us.  From every corner of our world, just down the street or across the globe, we find reasons to despair.  As Christians, we have reason to HOPE!  We have a God who stands by us!  A God who desires freedom for us from everything that would keep us from living a life that was like the one Jesus lived and so become the people we were created to be!  Do not lose hope!  Your strength has its source in the inexhaustible fountain of the Love that is God!