pain, hope in Christ seems the most compelling. Our pain in suffering produces a need and capacity for hope. Suffering enlarges the heart by creating the power to sympathize. When we’ve been poor, we have more empathy for the poor. When we’ve combated disease, our prayers gravitate to the ill. It’s out of our hope that we extend hope to the hopeless. Hopeful hearts look for those seeking the Lord. “Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long” (Psalm