Sometimes things are not as quick, close, large, or comfortable as we would like. Sometimes we must trust, patiently walking each day by faith, clinging tenaciously to hope, not just for ourselves, but for those we have come to love. We live both in the now and the not-yet. We take the long view, and this hope does not disappoint, “because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5)
