Hope seems to be hugely a theme in our lives these days. It has been about 18 months with a clean brain for our son, John, after battling for a year against the most horrific of things - brain cancer! We return for his 3 month check up in a month, and we begin to feel more hope and less worry as we get more and more positive results!
Yet, we also have known of young people not making it, and a young girl, who continues the battle and recently had dissappointing news. Yet, she continues to HOPE, and go forward, and fight to regain! Such a lesson on how HOPE is always there no matter what! 
The first reading in mass today is the one my dad was reading on a silent guided Ignation retreat at the Cenacle convent in Wayzata in 1971, and was told to join the Catholic Church along with his family - my mom and 11 kids! He was a Protestant Minister at the time, so this was HUGE! Isaiah 55:1-2 "All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! 2 Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare. "
He wants to feed us and care for us, and we can rely on that, and never stop having HOPE!
So with prayers continually in our hearts and on our lips... let us walk forth into the day, and the world around us... carrying our light and serving those next to us.... Christ with us. He serves and feeds us, and gives us "living waters" to revive us and give us life, so that we may in turn serve those we are given in our lives to love. 
Bless-bless, Barb"The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs." Ps 145: 16
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