God is sometimes described as ‘the hope of Israel’, ‘its Saviour in times of distress.’ (Jeremiah 14:8, see also Jeremiah 17:13). Hope can be hard to define, but Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without...

One of the most inspiring stories of hope can be found in the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel was a prophet who lived in exceedingly difficult times, when God’s people had been defeated by the invading Babylonians and carried off from their homeland to live as exiles in a...

Repetition is seen by most adults as an enemy; variety is the spice of life, we believe. We crave new experiences and rail against the everyday with its monotony and repetition. The French call it 'metro, boulot, dodo', the endless cycle of all work and no play, most...