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I pray that Carol’s Hope will help you:

Discover hope through “God-moments” in your day.
Encourage your heart, soul and mind.
Give you practical ideas and resources to help in your walk of faith.

Don’t be Anxious!

We’re just over two weeks into the new year! Have you made any resolutions? If so, are you still keeping them? I used to make New Year’s Resolutions. But, like many, they were usually broken […]

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Why do Good People Suffer?

How would you respond if everything you had was stripped from you… Your Finances Possessions Car Home and Children …within the space of a day? Some of this is happening now, to those losing businesses […]

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Truth Won Out

Abandoned. Left behind. Completely alone. Terrified. I recall when, as a child of nine, my parents drove away from church–-without me! Thankfully, my childhood abandonment was short-lived. Mom and Dad heard the silence in the […]

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The Week that Was

And what a week it was! Two weeks ago we learned our wonderful neighbors on both sides of us are dealing with significant health challenges. We’re watching for ways to love, encourage, pray for, and […]

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Your Favorite Christmas

Do you recall your favorite Christmas? It may be a Christmas gift whose memory has always remained with you. Something you hoped for that came true, or anticipation that made the realized hope even more […]

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Peace and Goodwill

Advent – the Coming. As we await the arrival of Christmas this year, we focus on hope. Hope has been elusive this year. Our culture is very much about “now”. We’re used to fast food, […]

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Blessing in an “Annus Horribilis”

In case you missed it, I’m reposting this blog I wrote, and which my author friend Laura Bennet posted on her site when we swapped two weeks ago. May you find blessings in this season […]

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Rooted

What a year 2020 has been! We headed into a rather restricted Thanksgiving week, limiting connections (as we’ve done for some time), meeting outdoors if at all. But I am thankful for YOU, my readers. […]

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When Hope is Lost

Posted by Carol Nicolet Loewen on 11/22/2020 Laura Bennet is a wonderful author I first met in a writers’ group in Santa Cruz. Since we are both finding hope from opposite ends of the country, […]

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Paradigm Shifts

What’s the paradigm behind your world view? I’ve been wrestling with this these past months. I wonder if you have been too. In this time of tensions within and outside our nation, pandemic fears, destruction […]

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Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds…”

Hebrews 10:23-24