Scattered Hope

Right now there are groups of people all over the world celebrating the days of unleavened bread. Many of them have absolutely nothing in common except a love of hope and eternal existence. Their belief in who God is and what His plan is can be completely different as interpretation of Scripture can be like the old folktale of three blind men feeling different parts of an elephant only to conclude with three very different features to describe the beast.
But what they all agree on is "hope." These days are about being pulled away from what the world tells us we must have to be happy to the reality that happiness comes from knowing your own family tree and the "hope" found in knowing your real roots.
Hope tells us not to love the world or love materialism, but to love the author of our life and our siblings. Yes, we will crave HAVING and BEING, but those cravings lead us to a false identity. One job loss or adultery takes those titles away.
We are smart, we know that a false hope is not really hope at all.
1 John 3:2, "Dear friends, now we are the children of God, and what we WILL BE has not yet been made known..."