A Mother’s Day Message of Hope

Final thoughts: Seeing trials as a pathway to peace

Friends, your fears might not grip you on a medical table. Maybe they’re present in relationship stress. Or a financial blow. Or any untold number of other things that threaten our health, stability, or wellbeing. Or, even harder sometimes, the wellbeing of someone we love.

So here are four questions to ask ourselves that might help us see our pain not as yet one more standalone tragedy, but as a pathway to peace:

• How can this present challenge help me see Jesus up close?
• Is there anything in this trial – this circumstance – that I can sincerely “give thanks” for?
• How have I seen God work in trials in the past, and what does that imply about the future?
• Looking at those prior painful trials, how far has God brought me in my faith?

These are the questions that move us away from hopelessness and toward the life-giving hope that God wants to anchor us in. A hope that doesn’t hinge on outcomes, but hinges on Him.

This is the journey my new devotional Find Hope takes us on. I searched scripture and science and created a 60-day path that combines Biblical wisdom with practical, doable habits that cultivate hope. It is carefully crafted, and the illustrator beautifully designed every page in full color (you have to take a look inside the book). It is a book I’d be so honored to see you put in your own mom’s hands this Sunday for Mother’s Day.

Let me know if you and your mom (or daughter) go through this book together. I’d love to hear your takeaways. And of course, Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, stepmoms, mom-in-laws, spiritual moms, and grandmas out there. Did I cover everyone? You wear so many hats. Mine is off to you today.

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