Hope - Page #24

Our Wilderness Struggle

We feel alone. We live in a world crowded with people, buildings, and events, and yet, sometimes we still feel isolated. We can be surrounded with family and friends; and we can laugh and look ...

No Stone Too Great

Aron Ralston, hiker, gained fame he probably wished he could have avoided. He was in a Utah canyon when he became trapped by a rock. Alone, unable to free himself, he made the fateful decision to ...

The War Within

Living in a war zone isn’t easy. In America a century and a half ago, much of the country was decimated as the American Civil War ripped holes in the fabric of people’s daily lives. In the early ...

A television travel host stumbled on a Chinese village that was made up entirely of little people. It was a tourist attraction, with scaled-down houses, smaller furniture, and acting stages sized to ...

Thinking Happy Thoughts

The world is what we see it as. The sun blazes across the morning, and one man sees the opportunity to go fishing, and the other pictures a day spent doing yard work. An apple cake comes out of the ...

Casting Off the Bad

We don’t like to have bad things come our way, and especially not a second time. Nearly two decades ago, a family living near Eagle Mountain Lake in North Texas had lightning strike their house. ...

Just Past the Horizon

A British travel show host visited the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. It thrusts upward from an amazing mountain peak that provides panoramic views of the city and its ...

Tears of Joy

We cry for many reasons. We find our life’s companion, and we are ecstatic with happiness. We hear a funny joke, and we laugh until we think we will pop. Our first child is born, and our love runs ...

The Bigger God

Some rivers are too big to be crossed. In 2004 a pair of British actors began a motorcycle trip around the world, intending to cross Europe and Asia, fly to Alaska, and ride all the way to New ...

The Party Smile

We all want to have a good time. Advertisers know this, and that’s why product ads feature people smiling even when doing normally distasteful ...

The Fallen Shall Rise Up

We like to name our children by what we want them to become. In years past, we might have chosen to name our son Abel, which means breath of life, or our daughter Amber after the beautiful gemstone. ...

Life from Death

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. That’s a man’s mantra, one designed to allowing boasting. When we take a risk, and the danger is great, living through it is even ...

The Rise of the King

In the last decades of the 20th century, a battle was brewing between Russian hockey player Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov and the government that held him ...