IT'S A TIME OF HOPE AND GRACE. LIVE IT!   Do not fall into the trap that society sets for you through the secular media; because tuning in for even a few minutes is enough for you to get sucked into their narrative and lose the Hope that is within. The majority of their news is about violence, crime, murder, unemployment, bankruptcy, etc.; bad things happen in this fallen world but we can’t build our lives around them. Instead, the Word of God is given to enable us to build our lives around good and positive news that drives us and leads us to the Happiness and Joy God has arranged for us embodied in Jesus “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, for He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the afflicted. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim a year of favor from the Lord” Luke 4:18-19 Those who believe in God are optimistic by Faith and assured that the Divine Will of the Lord will solve their problems. That Hope affirms our existence and gives us the security that only the Holy Spirit grants to those who love Jesus. Believing and trusting that God shaped who we are and who we can become. It provides identity; identity is under attack today with transgenderism, transhumanism, globalism, and other kinds of new religions all meant to cause a lack of identity, first as male and female created by God, human and individual with freewill; the intended purpose of these “isms” is to create a lack of certainty, lack of reassurance, lack of firmness, lack of joy, and lack of peace because the world wants to strip us of what we know, where we came from and where we are going. Losing the meaning of your life’s identity is probably one of the most serious problems of our time. These false narratives have given rise to doubt and mistrust in the mired of human systems, programs, and projects that all fall short of meeting our needs; therefore, we must remain convinced by Faith that only God, through Christ, can fully meet the deepest longings of humankind and society by us first identifying fully as His Creation by His Grace.    Time of grace and thanksgiving   Every year when November rolls around, I can't help but - and it might happen to you too – associate this month with the Thanksgiving holiday we celebrate here in the U.S. Gratitude has been a hallmark in my life; I discovered that it is the secret to true peace and happiness that our hearts yearn for. The thought I entertain when meditating about gratitude is “It is not happiness that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us happy. We all know people who have everything they need to be happy. Yet, they are not, simply because they are not grateful for what they…