Do you know...

where hope lives?

Hope lives in your heart's desire. Hope lives in the dreams you have for your future. Hope lives and can be resurrected, in my experience, when we experience freedom. Freedom is not doing whatever we want whenever we want. That's license and it's unfortunately standing in as an imposter for the real definition of freedom which is to know that which is good and that which is evil and to choose that which is good. To always seek to know the good and then to choose it is to experience true freedom. Only then when we are resting in that which is good are we able to go where hope lives.

I'll tell you my experience of discovering where hope resides. Maybe you've experienced this too. You know that for many years we lived beyond our means financially. We had stable income so we thought getting ahead of that first paycheck (and then a few more) was something from which we could easily recover. (I'm not going to harp on the reasons not to get into debt so you can keep reading.)

But what we didn't realize until we were out of it was how it limited our ability to dream. It limited our power to act in the world in such a discrete way that we didn't realize until we were out of debt and starting to build wealth for the first time in our marriage that we had stopped really dreaming. It wasn't others that came in and scoffed at our desires for the future, we just did it for ourselves because the mountain of obligations we had already made with our spending power made doing anything except paying bills seem impossible. We didn't even try to dream. But dreaming is where hope lives. If we can't dream we can't hope.

What's keeping you from dreaming? What are the desires of your heart? Discover that and you'll find out where hope lives.