Hey everyone it's Natasha Kram. In today's episode I'm going to share with you from an article I wrote a while back called

one of the greatest gifts to give your kids this Easter is a sense of hopelessness.

And I have to say it was so funny to me after I wrote this originally I got all these emails and social media comments from people saying is that a typo?

Don't you mean that you need to give your kids a sense of hopefulness? And I said no no you have to actually read the article to see what I mean our kids really do need to have a sense of

hopelessness about this world so that's what I want to talk about with you today and share with you in this Easter

week. A few months ago I experienced a moment of personal insight that really

transformed how I think about faith and it happened while debating whether or not I should go to the

grocery store strangely enough. It was mid-morning on a weekday my kids were at

school and I was at my computer working. I hadn't had the time for breakfast that day and my stomach started to rumble.

As my thoughts turned to food I realized I needed to go grocery shopping.

I actually enjoy the grocery store so I started thinking about all the delicious things that I would buy for the week and the dinners that I'd make.

But first I had to eat something. So I heated up some leftovers from dinner, my favorite kind of breakfast,

and promptly experienced a food coma from the abundance of morning calories.

When I sat back down at my computer, I audibly sighed and thought to myself,

I don't want to go to the grocery store.

I'm not even hungry now. I actually laughed out loud at the

absurdity of my own thought. What does hunger have to do with needing groceries at any given time?

And why had I looked forward to everything I could buy just

30 minutes before whereas now grocery shopping felt like a chore. I thought of

that seemingly trivial moment dozens of times over the last few months because it's such an appropriate

analogy for the role of desire in a person's spiritual life.

If you spend any time around Christians you'll hear about the quote hope we have in

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