Again, my tagline…

Artifacts of faith, hope, and love.

It sounds deep and mushy, but what does it really mean.

I like making things.  That’s the ‘Artifacts’ part but what about the other stuff.  “Do you make mushy, touchy feely stuff/artifacts?”  Sort of, I guess. (clay IS mushy)

Ok, so I’m a Jesus follower.  I think Jesus is awesome.  Again, He is the reason those three terms, faith, hope, and love have meaning to me.  But not in a traditionally religious sense.

The word ‘Hope’ has been associated with political campaigns, social charities, and used as a popular name for girls. For me the word ‘Hope’ is closely related to the word (and my personal definition of) ‘Faith‘.  In my world, Hope (if I were to personify it) is pretty much the mother of Faith.  Hope comes before Faith.  Before you can believe something is possible for you personally, there has to be an idea or thought that the “good thing”, the solution, the answer…

Exists.

Ok, so what does Jesus have to do with that.

Well.

Hope is the reason Jesus even existed on the earth…

Romans 4:18 (NLT)
Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping–believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Without Abraham’s hope, Jesus wouldn’t have been born.  Abraham should have given up on having kids quite frankly.  But, because God gave him a promise (the HOPE that it WAS possible), he believed.   For Abraham, the promise was his hope.

So, what do you believe is possible?  Are there things you haven’t even considered as existing in your life and therefore are lacking hope?

Do you have hope?