How to Hope When It’s Hard: Advent Hope

When it comes time to light that first candle on the first Sunday of Advent, the Hope Candle, it crosses my mind that I’ve never lost hope down some rabbit hole.Honestly? Where I’ve lost hope is looking into my reflection in the mirror.I’ve lost hope looking straight into my own eyes and feeling like there’s no way out of you and the way you’ve gotten things wrong, out of your past, out of your own tattered story, no way to rip out the smeared and ugly pages of your one story.An