Dear Trekker,
Another year has been launched, and our fifth year completed of writing “Passing the Baton”. As you may recall from previous reflections written here, I’m not high on New Year’s resolutions, but new “life” resolutions and commitments are a different story. Two years ago this month, I wrote about death and hope. We said then that “hope is the oxygen of spirit life”, and the farther along the trek of life we climb, the rarer is the oxygen of hope.
All we said then is not only true; hope in the breast of man is inexhaustible, particularly when hope is initially defined as a noun, not a verb. The Apostle Paul writes to his young mentoree Timothy about “Jesus Christ, our hope”. (1 Timothy 1:1) When hope is a Person, hope as a verb can have enormous power in relationship with that Person. And since God is God (and we’re not) we only know Him, our Hope, as He, the unknown of unknowns, reveals Himself to us. That has to be good lay theology 101! Read More