"Heaven's hope does for your world what the sunlight did for my grandmother's cellar.  I owe my love

 of peach preserves to her.  She canned her own and stored them in an underground cellar near her West

Texas house.  It was a deep hole with wooden steps, plywood walls, and a musty smell. As a  young-

ster I used to climb in, close the door, and see how long I could last in the darkness.  Not even a slit

of light entered that underground hole.  I would sit silently, listening to my breath and heartbeats, until

I couldn't take it anymore and then would race up the stairs and throw open the door.  Light would ava-

lanche into the cellar.  What a change!  Moments before I couldn't see anything-all of a sudden I could

see everthing.

Just as light poured into the cellar, God's hope pours into your world.  Upon the sick, he shines the ray

of healing.  To the bereaved, he gives the promise of reunion.  For the dying, he lit the flame of

resurrection.  To the confused, he offers the light of Scripture.

God gives hope."

~ "Traveling Light"  Max Lucado

"Hope" is what keeps me going day after day, in this world.  Wishing you sunlight and hope in your world today...

...it's presence changes everything.