God Is Hope
We should measure this world by the standards of the next. It is what I believe. However challenging our time here may be-the afterlife is the standard for all life... Money, power, pleasure bring us temporal highs...and when they have been exhausted over and over again...the disillusioned letdowns lead many to give up all hope..to give up life. History is written by men who have walked away from the essence of life---because despite their brilliance, they would not accept the miraculous. That God exists...and that we exist to know God, to love God, to honor God in the service of others, so that we may be happy in this life and the next. Great minds like George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak, believed he had hit his pinacle...his purpose...declaring "there is nothing left for me to do." He marched upstairs to his bedroom and blew his brains out....Adolph Hitler shot himself, committing suicide amid the ruins of Berlin... Wealth and power...but no God. In the end, their...