what do we cherish?

when all things fall apart around us and disrupts our lives and our home, what is the one stabilizing factor that remains in our lives? What gives us hope? What makes us feel like going on? Paul says in Corinthians that he wished that God would pour joy and peace into our lives as we trust him, so that we would overflow with hope; Hope is a constant in any and every situation. Because we have been through bad situations in the past we know that this crisis too will pass, and that things will get better. May we continue to cherish the spirit of hope and keep it alive in our hearts in the midst of obstacles and crises that invariably will come in a changing and reckless world. lauren