Have you ever walked into a room and been overwhelmed by how it feels? Not the temperature or how it looks or sounds, but the emotions that it invokes. That feeling when you come home after a long trip. That feeling of walking into a room full of friends. There are some spaces that just seem to overflow with a sense of joy, contentment, love and hope. A couple of years ago I came across the term “pocket of hope”. It’s a term used by the Sisters of St. Martha in Antigonis

Dear Blessed and Highly Favored, As long as I can remember, it is a tradition of mine to begin the New Year by reflecting on Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” I give God thanks because in every situation he has proven faithful. God has proven faithful over and over again, even in my questions and in my doubts. Jeremiah, the weeping prophet with a messa