Here's Hope: Finding Hope in the Chaos with Kasey Hope

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Here's Hope: Finding Hope in the Chaos with Kasey Hope episodes

October 12 Interview with Diane Les Bequets, Author of "Where the Water Meets the Sky"
What happens when we stop striving, slow down, and learn to truly listen to God?

In this episode of the Here’s Hope Podcast, Kasey sits down with bestselling author Diane Les Becquets, author of Where the Water Meets the Sky, Breaking Wild, and The Last Woman in the Forest.

Diane shares the story behind her newest novel, a powerful story of grief, trauma, forgiveness, restoration, and finding our way back to the person God created us to be. She also opens up about her own life-changing journey—including being diagnosed with five brain aneurysms, undergoing high-risk surgery, and experiencing a profound moment of surrender that changed the way she viewed her life, her faith, and even her writing.

Together, Kasey and Diane talk about:
• Learning to recognize God’s voice and trusting Him to answer in His timing
• The difference between working hard and striving for an outcome
• Creating rhythms that make room for God, creativity, and rest
• Why restoration is a walk rather than an instant transformation
• The power of stepping away from screens and paying attention to God’s creation
• Finding peace by surrendering what we cannot control
• Returning to our truest identity—the person God created us to be
• How Where the Water Meets the Sky became a story of Diane’s own journey toward healing and freedom

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that sometimes God asks us to open our hands, stop striving, and simply receive—to receive His love, His grace, His forgiveness, and the path He has already prepared for us.

About Diane Les Becquets:
Diane Les Becquets is the bestselling author of Breaking Wild, The Last Woman in the Forest, and Where the Water Meets the Sky. Her writing is deeply connected to the outdoors, the human experience, and the ways we find healing and restoration.
Where the Water Meets the Sky is available wherever books are sold.

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44 min
October 05 When All You Can Say is Jesus.... How to Pray Part 4
When All You Can Say Is "Jesus" | The Lord's Prayer, Part 4
A van towing a tractor starts fishtailing on the interstate, and the only prayer Kasey can get out is one word, over and over: Jesus. In this final episode of our Lord's Prayer series, we're unpacking the last line Jesus gave us in Matthew 6:13: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
Kasey shares why crying out the name of Jesus in a scary moment is a real prayer, what we're actually asking when we pray about temptation, and why we can't ignore the evil that shows up quietly in our phones, our comparisons, and the lie that we're not enough.
We close the series with the heart of it all: prayer is a relationship. You don't need fancy words or a quiet room. You can pray on a walk, over the laundry, or behind the wheel. And if all you can say is "Jesus," that's a prayer too.

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20 min
September 28How to Pray part 3
There's a prayer I look back on now and think, God, thank you for not giving me what I asked for. I was so certain I knew what I needed, so certain I was praying for the right thing, but God saw a few steps down the road where I couldn't see. In this week's installment of our Lord's Prayer series, we're talking about the hardest part of prayer: the part where we surrender our will to His and learn to ask boldly while holding our hands open.

In This Episode:
The difference between praying for your will and praying for God's will, and why Jesus put the surrender before the ask in the model prayer

Why specific, daily prayers matter more than vague generalities: God has the capacity to hear every small request, and when you get specific, you see His hand move specifically

Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane as the ultimate model of bold asking followed by complete surrender: "Take this cup from me, but not my will, yours be done"

The practice of trusting God in both answered and unanswered prayers, because if He says no or redirects your path, that actually means He loves you enough to protect you from something you can't see

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19 min
September 21How to Pray Part 2... The Name Matters
When I pray "Our Father," I'm claiming a relationship. When I pray "Jehovah Jireh," I'm declaring that God sees and provides. The names of God aren't just titles or poetic language. They're invitations to experience different aspects of who He is and what He's capable of doing. Learning to pray through His names changes everything about what you ask for and what you actually believe He can do.

In This Episode:
The name you call God determines what you're claiming about Him in that moment, so "Father" brings intimacy, "Jehovah Jireh" brings provision, "El Shaddai" brings sufficiency, and each one opens a different door to His character

When you're anxious, you need a different name than when you're grieving. Matching the name to the need is how you move from generic prayers to prayers rooted in what's actually true about God's nature

The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, and the first thing He said was "Our Father." He started with relationship because that's the foundation for everything else

Praying through God's names takes you from asking with doubt to asking with confidence, because you're asking the God who is specifically able to handle exactly what you need in this moment

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13 min
September 14How to Pray... Part 1
Prayer doesn't have to look like a perfectly worded speech or feel like you're performing for an audience. I've been teaching this to my students for years, but I had to actually live it before I believed it. There's a difference between the way we think prayer should work and the way Jesus actually taught us to pray. And turns out, He kept it way simpler than we make it.

In This Episode:
Jesus didn't teach us to pray with big, flowery words or perfect theology. He taught us to pray like children asking their father for what they need, with intimacy and honesty instead of formality

The Lord's Prayer breaks down into a simple pattern: who God is, what you're asking for, what you're confessing, and what you need protection from, which takes all the complexity out of knowing what to pray

Your prayers don't need to sound like anyone else's prayers, and God is not impressed by volume or eloquence. He's listening for your honest heart, your real thoughts, your actual struggles

Pray out loud, pray on walks, pray while you're mad, pray while you're driving. Prayer is just talking to God about what's real, and it counts just as much whether it's beautiful or messy or somewhere in between

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15 min
September 07What Jesus modeled, that we keep getting wrong
I painted a mural for an ISS room with the words "Better Choices, Brighter Future." Truth and grace sitting side by side in one small room. A kid broke a rule, got a consequence, and was still reminded that this moment didn't have to define them. And I realized something about how we handle our own relationships: we almost never hold grace and truth together the way Jesus did.

In This Episode:
Grace without truth looks like staying silent to avoid conflict, which breeds resentment and keeps relationships surface level instead of letting people actually grow

Truth without grace looks like constant correction, nitpicking, or calling out someone's sin so bluntly that they stop bringing you anything real because they know all they'll get is judgment

Jesus modeled both at once: confronting the woman at the well about her marriages while offering her living water, confronting Peter's denials while restoring him to his purpose, holding forgiveness and a call to change in the same breath

When you need to say something hard, lead with warmth: "I love you no matter what and because I love you I cannot pretend this is not hurting you," and then stay in the relationship instead of disappearing after the hard conversation

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15 min
August 31Pelican Provision
I watched a pelican soar over the ocean, dive into the waves, and come up with a fish. It didn't just appear in the bird's mouth. There was still effort and work involved. That simple image got me thinking about God's provision all week, especially as I sat with friends who run million-dollar businesses but have all been through tight financial seasons. Every one of us started with something we already had. And God kept asking me the same question: what's in your hand?

In This Episode:
God's pattern in Scripture is never to drop something brand new out of the sky. Instead He asks "What do you already have?" and multiplies the small, ordinary thing that's sitting unused right in front of you

Moses had a staff, the widow had a jar of oil, the boy had a lunch, and we had a building sitting empty on Sundays. None of it looked like provision until we started actually looking at what was already ours

Before you ask God for something new, ask Him to open your eyes to what's already in your hand. Write it down, what's underused, what feels too ordinary to matter, what's been sitting idle

Your work isn't creating provision. Your work is going and getting what had already been provided. The pelican still has to dive, but the fish is already there in the water

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19 min
August 24Alone on Purpose
I set a timer for 15 minutes of uninterrupted quiet and got three text notifications before I even made it a quarter of the way through. That's when I realized something: I cannot get quiet by accident. If I want uninterrupted time to think, create, or pray, I have to build it on purpose and defend it like it matters because it does. And research backs me up. One small interruption costs way more than you think.

In This Episode:
There are two different kinds of quiet and they're not the same thing: quiet to recharge through prayer and Scripture, and quiet to create output and think through things that require real focus

Research shows it takes over 20 minutes on average for your brain to fully regain deep focus after just one interruption, which means those little pings and questions are stealing way more time than you realize

Jesus modeled both kinds of quiet: He withdrew to solitary places to pray, and He also called His disciples away to rest, showing us that both are non-negotiable parts of how we're made to function

Access is the enemy of depth, so you have to decide on purpose that for a defined stretch of time, you are going to be unreachable, and then you have to actually protect that time by putting your phone in another room

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19 min
August 10Already Chosen
My daughter just left for college and started sorority Rush. Every girl walking into that process is wondering the same thing: will I be picked? It's a question that doesn't go away when we grow up. Lecrae, at the height of his career, still carries the fear of not being chosen. But Scripture answered this question long before any of us were born. Before Rush lists and friend groups and art retreats and every invitation we didn't receive, God had already written our names down.

In This Episode:
Before we had any chance to be picked or passed over, God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, which changes the entire order of things about where our worth comes from

We are not just chosen, we are adopted, and adoption is never accidental or convenient. God chose us on purpose, intentionally, before we existed to earn it or lose it

What we think about ourselves on a regular basis becomes what we believe about ourselves, whether it's true or not, so renewing our minds with what God says about us matters more than any list

No matter which list you're waiting on right now, that choosing has already been decided. Nothing on that list gets the final word about who you are

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13 min
August 03 A Message from 26 Years Ago
Twenty-six years ago, I stood in a field with thousands of other college students and heard John Piper preach a message called "Don't Waste Your Life," and just this week, a random Instagram clip brought it all rushing back. In this episode, I'm sharing why those words have stayed with me for decades and the question underneath them that I think we're all wrestling with: am I spending my life or am I wasting it? We're talking about what a full life actually means, why it's about aim and not scale, and why your ordinary, faithful days matter more than you know. I'm not leaving you with a to-do list this week, just one honest question worth sitting with.

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16 min