Shalom. Shalom is prosperity, perfect wellbeing, and peace on Earth and within man. It’s hard to imagine this kind of wholeness and serenity in a world of crippling blight. But despite all the horrors we’ve heard, sufferings we’ve experienced, and the inevitable death we know we must confront, we still know what goodness is. And we desire for better.

Now the difference is how we desire. Do you look to the past? To that relationship that had temporarily filled that longing… made you feel happy those couple of months? Or perhaps an award or achievement that brought you 15 minutes of fame to your friends and family. Whatever that past may be, we long for it to be once more. We cling to it because that was the goodness we know in this world. The other way we desire is hope. Hope is void of the past and of what we know. Hope is the unknown. We use our imagination, desire, and faith to build hope. We hope in a better that we’ve never experienced. We are vulnerable to this hope. In a way hope is supernatural. In this supernatural we believe in the existence of Shalom. 

But who delivers this supernatural hope?