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Hope / Expectations Walk with me for a few moments as we probe the tension between hope and expectations.  Perhaps many of the inner conflicts we face in life arise from unmet expectations.  But, we cannot live in a vacuum of hope. After all, hope gives us an anticipation of future things, of better things, of a new tomorrow, and a better day.  Herein is the rub; anticipation sets up our expectations.  And it is at this point risk enters.  What if our expectations are not realistic?   I look to the pages of scripture to shed some light.   First, I think of John the Baptist.  He lived an extreme lifestyle based upon his inner conviction of how he understood God’s purpose for him.  Yet, the path he committed himself led to a dungeon.  John, like so many have done in their own moments of inner darkness, began to question whether his life had been spent in vain. He began to question if he had misunderstood his God; ‘Are you the Me...