Word of the Week: 'Hope'
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hope as the expectation of something desired; a feeling of trust or confidence. Hope comes from the root "to be lacking" or to be empty. As Robert Claiborne notes in Roots of English, "If you want something ... you obviously lack it." Hope is the expectation or desire for something not present with us.
As the Apostle Paul says, "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it" (Romans 8:24-25).
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