It is hope that gets me through every day-knowing that God is in control of all things and in his way, his time, he will take this crazy, mixed up world of his, he will put everything and everyone of his children back on their feet. All will be well again. Without Hope, what do we have that is worth keeping.

We lost my sister about 12 years ago now and there was a song that just came on the radio and it was just hit me. Praise the Lord, Oh my soul. And then the ending there where it says that, you know, “when my time has come, still my soul will be praising.” And my sister was a newly convert. And I know where she is because, you know, of her aversion to Christ and how she, you know, asked for forgiveness and--and God came into her heart, and it was very evident. And I know that, you know, she is with the Lord right now and someday I'll see her again. And that song was just so, so encouraging to my soul. So that was wonderful.

I work in a community and I've been through a lot in my life and as I drive around going from home to home, I have UCB on and it just seems that at the moments when I really need a word from God of just, you know, I'm more than just the sum of my parts-- It'll be a speaker or it'll be a song that comes on that just encourages me and reminds me to just keep believing that God will have my back no matter what. There's a voice out there that says you're not alone.