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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.

From Death to Life

Once again grief roars into our family. I keep wanting to pick up the phone and call her. Then I remember. She left us Saturday. Transitioned from death to Life. My precious 98-year old mother […]

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Prayer for a Pandemic

My emotions have run the gamut this week … fear, joy (at how people are serving each other), anxiety, hope, depression, and on and on … How about yours? Psalm 91 encouraged me this week, […]

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Toilet Paper

In an interview with YAHOO MONEY, Kit Yarrow, consumer psychologist and professor emerita at Golden Gate University said “The antidote to anxiety really is control, and what people can control right now is buying things.” […]

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Fear Not

Toilet paper shelf – empty! Pasta – two small packages remaining on the shelf. Hand wipes and Purell – someone told me yesterday that the whole country is out, that there is no more at […]

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Moments

Undulating green hills rose and fell as far as we could see, a soft, lumpy carpet interspersed with jagged rocks thrusting up through the soil and grass at periodic intervals. Here were downed trees. There, […]

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Meeting God–in Grief

I’m enjoying reading (again) “Meeting God at Every Turn” by Catherine Marshall. Marshall was the wife of Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the United States Senate from 1947 until his unexpected death in January 1949. Catherine […]

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Undivided Attention

As I sat behind my desk, ready to write, Paigey (our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) looked up at me from beside the desk. Then she pulled her ball out and brought it to me. “Okay, […]

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What is Heaven Like?

“What is heaven like?” This, as well as “How is my Papa?” were questions some of my Kids’ Club third graders wanted to ask God.   What great questions. And can we ask God without offending […]

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Bait and Switch

The afternoon was warm and balmy. We walked down the oceanfront street, shops beckoning with beautiful wares. A young woman, cute hat atop her pretty, long brown hair, reached out to hand me samples of […]

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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