Author: Emily Chase

Only one more week of Advent! Thanks for staying with me as we study the theme of HOPE. A year ago, my husband Gene stayed with three of our grandsons for several days while their mother and father were away on a trip. Each day, Gene hoped to have a brief devotional time with the …

Take a seat and let’s continue our trip through Advent. We still have more rewards of HOPE to discover! My son John delights in his children. He tosses little Lydia in the air and she whoops with excitement. When he builds complex Rube Goldberg-type ramps with Ruthie and Heidi, their eyes glow with pleasure as …

Returning to learn another reward of HOPE? Read on! When I was a child, our family had a summer home by a lake in New England. Violent electrical storms would sometimes whip up waves on the lake and strike trees along the shore. On those evenings, my parents would turn on our kerosene lamps and …

Glad you have returned for today’s Advent devotional. Are you ready for another gift that comes along with HOPE? A person who has forgiveness for their past and hope for the future also enjoys confidence to face whatever lies before them today. Many places, where older translations of the Bible used the word ‘hope,’ the …

We are now halfway through Advent! Are you ready for another devotional thought about HOPE? Hope can be a very abstract concept. It is all very well to hope for something that will occur far in the future and even have faith that one day it might come to pass, but what about the situations …

Thank you for returning here for another installment on our Advent study of HOPE. Christmas is full of laughter and lights, shopping and songs, friends and family, but it is not a joyous time for everyone. So many have lost loved ones this year to COVID, including me. Grief is a strange critter. It sneaks …

Thanks for coming back to learn more about HOPE through this Advent series of devotionals. Did you ever make up a Christmas wish list when you were a child? Most of us grew up also making a wish before blowing out the candles on our birthday cake. As we go through this study on hope, …

We are not even halfway through Advent! Will Christmas ever arrive? I “HOPE” so! When you were a child, did you ever make construction-paper chains to count down the days until Christmas? You knew the days would eventually pass and Christmas would come, but did it seem like the days could never go by fast …

Here we are together again to learn something more about HOPE in this Advent series of devotionals. A friend of mine had to spend Christmas in jail last year. At the time, I couldn’t imagine how difficult that was for him. To have been condemned in a public court of law, to be far from …

You came back! Thanks for joining us for Day 8 of these Advent devotionals on HOPE. People know that my husband died of COVID this year. They seem to walk on tiptoe around me, expecting me to take the role of grieving widow when in reality, most days I am fine. Yes, I have down …