My washing machine is fixed and that's the end of handwashing our clothes. Mag is thrilled. It's always good to have something fixed. Speaking of that I think its about time I visit the dentist.

May Ann has this good habit of telling us what happens in school every day. Yesterday May Ann told me that each person has 3 sets of teeth. I thought only 2, the baby teeth or milk teeth and the other the final set of adult teeth. I thought there's some new discovery in science that they are teaching in the schools.

With some many problems with my current set, I was excited and filled with hope, I asked her so what are they? She said 1) the baby teeth 2) the adult teeth and 3) the denture! .... I was flabbergasted. It wasn't even a joke, she wasn't laughing. She meant it and I thought to myself that's really false hope, isn't it?

We get a lot of false hope from this world, not only from children but from adults too... especially from ourselves. We create false hopes to appease ourselves. We justify that its okay to conform to the patterns of the world because it gives a certain comforting feeling that we are doing it right when its actually not. We are called to be different because we have real hope that God is in control. He gives us this real hope so that we can take part in the redeemption work with Him.

So if things are not convenient and comfortable when we serve Him, it may not be wrong, it may just means that we are not dependent on hope that the world gives. It means we are following God and our hope is in Him alone.