In the almost seven years that we've been married, Stephen and I have never put up a Christmas tree, and this definitely wasn't the year to begin putting one up. But, I saw the above idea on a Rachael Ray show and decided it looked like fun. I formed the letters by sticking whole cloves in apples and oranges and placed them around the house. Unfortunately the apples rotted within a couple of days, but the oranges, the hope, is still there.
It's ironic that of the three, hope, joy, and peace, hope is the one that remains. It's been a rough couple of months, and hope has seemed distant. But we want to claim that our hope isn't in people or things that will fail us, but our hope is in the Lord because with him there is unfailing love and with him there is full redemption.
So, without a tree or much ado about Christmas, hope is our theme this year, and HOPEfully will be for years to come ...
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