that can override the old memories and lessen the impact of the past. This is how we turn from fear to hope. Remember that God’s gift is grace—and this grace overcame the past and gave us a future. We do have a choice in life—to live driven by fear or to be drawn forward by hope. Frederick Buechner wrote: Hope stands up to its knees in the past and keeps its eyes on the future. There has never been a time past when God wasn’t with us as the strength beyond our strength, the wisdom beyond our wisdom,