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What do you do when hope feels more dangerous than despair
When every time you believed for something good, life proved you wrong
When your nervous system has learned to flinch at the very idea of hope

In this raw and tender message, Pastor Dan Minor continues his exploration of reconstruction after spiritual trauma and asks a question few churches ever dare to ask:

How do you hope again when hope is the very thing that once hurt you

Using a viral Facebook post about unexpected political civility as a launchpad, Dan uncovers the emotional and spiritual pattern so many of us live in

Controlled hopelessness...
not despair
not joy
just spiritual airplane mode
a state where hope feels too risky and neutrality feels safer than faith

This episode walks us through:

• How disappointment rewires our nervous system
• Why deconstruction was the easy part
• Why reconstruction requires courage, softness, and risk
• Why every miracle in Scripture starts with someone daring to hope
• Resistance to hope after church trauma
• The tiny moments of hope that rebuild a life
• What Scripture teaches about hope after exhaustion
from Abraham hoping against hope
to the bleeding woman risking belief one more time
to the disciples on the Emmaus road saying “We had hoped”
to Peter lowering his nets after catching nothing
to the priests stepping into the river before it parted

Dan argues that:

When we stop hoping, we stop healing
When we stop healing, we stop changing
And where there is no change, there is no resurrection

If your heart has learned to brace for disappointment, if you have lived in the rubble of deconstruction, if you are afraid to trust anything that looks like faith, this episode is for you.

Not to force hope
Not to fake hope
But to offer you one tiny, sacred moment of it

Maybe that is all resurrection needs to start.

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Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative