The New Hope Times: Hope Worth Fighting For

By Wayne Abel

Today, we are living in a hope-challenged world looking for inspiration. But YOU can become that inspiration every day. The fact that you’ve picked up this book instead of the one about the world ending means you are living with hope and aspire to give hope to others.



From his blog, Hope Worth Fighting For, Wayne Abel takes you on a journey of hope through the lives and stories of people across the globe. Through fifty-two weeks, one article a week, you will learn how to think and act with hope. At the end of each week’s article there will be questions and inspirational quotes to challenge you, motivate you, and strengthen you.

Join Wayne Abel today in rebuilding, repairing, and restoring the power of hope throughout the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Creation House
• Release date: Nov 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781621363880

Book preview

Wayne Abel has a passion for learning and development, and for finding new ways to inspire hope. With well over a decade’s worth of experience in these areas, his passion and experience shows in this practical and applied book. He has captured the practical side of hope in this exemplary and unique work. Guided by the lives of countless heroes across the globe as well as his personal experiences, including those occurring during challenging times in South Africa’s past, The New Hope Times is a living testimony and a tribute to how we can generate hope for individuals, families, communities, societies, countries, and the world one step at a time, each individual at a time. at a time.

—DR. LEHAN STEMMET BSC, SAC.D

DIPPSYCH MSC PHD

ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

PROFESSIONAL STRESS AND COPING

EXPERT AND RESEARCHER

WAYNE ABEL

THE NEW HOPE TIMES by Wayne Abel

Published by Creation House

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This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise— without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2010, 2011, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked GW are from God’s Word, Grand Rapids, MI: World Publishing, 1995.

Scripture quotations marked THE MESSAGE are from The Message: The Bible in Contemporary English, copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Design Director: Bill Johnson

Cover design by Terry Clifton

Copyright © 2013 by Wayne Abel

All rights reserved.

Visit the author’s website: Hopeworthfightingfor.blogspot.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 2013941246

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62136-387-3

E-book International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62136-388-0

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication.

Dedication

To Doreen Monica Anthony, a woman whose life was the epitome of hope.

acknowledgments

The lovely Jacqueline Abel, my most ardent supporter, best friend, and wife. Reece Michael and Tia Nicole, whose love is a most treasured thing. Mike Abel, a mentor and spiritual father second to none.

table of contents

Introduction

Week 1: Hope Worth Fighting For

Week 2: Blue-Sky Thinking

Week 3: The Art of Intent

Week 4: An Orientation of the Heart

Week 5: Anticipation

Week 6: Abiding Realities

Week 7: A Child’s Eyes

Week 8: Potential—What a Great Idea!

Week 9: Get Ready, Get Set, Start!

Week 10: Where Hope Grows

Week 11: Another War to Wage

Week 12: True or False

Week 13: Who Knows You?

Week 14: What Really Matters

Week 15: Choosing a Better Way

Week 16: Looking for Hope in All the Right Places

Week 17: Strike a Pose

Week 18: Eternally Hopeful

Week 19: The Manifestation of Hope

Week 20: A Song to Sing

Week 21: Hope That Carries You

Week 22: The Optimist’s Dream

Week 23: Hope Redefined

Week 24: Encouraged by Strangers

Week 25: There’s Hope Yet!

Week 26: A Little Difference in a Big Way

Week 27: Then Along Comes You

Week 28: Rain Soaks by Often Falling

Week 29: Twelve Ordinary Citizens

Week 30: Reflections on The Joy Luck Club

Week 31: A Cup Full of Hope

Week 32: Prisoners of Hope

Week 33: Tomorrow Is Another Day

Week 34: Give Me Hope, Obama

Week 35: Hope Anyway!

Week 36: Remembering Kitty

Week 37: Giving Up Hope

Week 38: The Science of Hope

Week 39: Growing Hope

Week 40: The Measure of Treasure

Week 41: Keeping the Wheels of Progress Turning

Week 42: Tweet It to the World

Week 43: No Ordinary Hope

Week 44: A Cry for Help

Week 45: Never Too Much—A Lesson from Bear Grylls

Week 46: The Road Less Traveled

Week 47: The Grass Is Greener on the Other Side . . . of Hope

Week 48: Short Bursts of Hope

Week 49: False Hope

Week 50: Like a Tree Planted by a River

Week 51: A Generation in Crisis

Week 52: Faith, Hope, and Love

A Final Word

Notes

About the Author

Contact the Author

introduction

why the new hope times?

With all the bad news that gets printed around the globe, I thought it was about time that we found a way to inspire hope every day. A paper would have been a great idea, but let’s face it, bad news sells better than good news, whether for shock value or for helping people feel a little better than someone else who’s having it worse than them. The New Hope Times was born out of a blog I began in 2008 called Hope Worth Fighting For. This is my conviction.

WHY 52 ARTICLES?

In our busy society, I figured you’d find it time-consuming and perhaps a little distracting to focus on a new thing every day. Steven Covey, famed author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, teaches the benefits of planning on a weekly basis as opposed to daily or monthly. Fifty-two weeks will cover you for one whole year. Sit a magna anno! (Let it be a great year.)

WHY ME?

All of us have to overcome self-doubt. I’m no different. I asked myself the question, Why should anyone listen to what’s in my heart about the subject of hope? Three things: First, I grew up in a racially divided South Africa, where hopes were dashed as routine; where faith, education, and the love of family was what saw you through. Secondly, in the space of four short years, I lost three family members to preventable illness, one of whom was my own dear mother. Something happened, however, in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was released. We waited. We watched. We knew. The flame of hope had been sparked again. Finally, to be true to the purpose for my life, I am impelled to share this with you.

WHO INSPIRES US?

Other than one or two role models and a bunch of great authors . . . you do!