HOPE!!!

Happy New Year as we begin the Advent Season. This is the time for us to live and wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. As someone told me after one of our weekend Masses, "Hope is a small word but it has a lot of power." Hope is my focus during the Advent Season. This January, the Diocese of Salina, Kansas, will begin the Pastoral Plan named, "Stewards of Hope." We are all stewards and we need to be a people of hope. As another person always reminds me, "We live in hope." There are so many examples of hope that we can find and some happen to be right in front of us. Our different experiences in life can be a testament of hope. Like faith, we can share the hope that we have with our brothers and sisters. My prayer for you today and this Advent is that the gift of hope will be yours and may it be a gift that we live and share each day. Have a blessed Sunday!!!