Without a future we can believe in, we try to make our way through the fog of life, often walking in circles, covering the same ground, not getting where we want to go. This promise for a better future comes to us - and it gives us direction and hope.

We want to live into the promise - with eager anticipation, with strength to live like it is true, to imagine a world of generosity, of trust, of goodness. We need this promise to get down deep inside of us, to believe that this promise - and the God behind it - is more true than the fog created by our family turmoil, our tense political climate, our uncertainty about tomorrow.