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Isaiah 2:1-5 speaks of God’s promised day of hope, when wars end, swords are beaten into plowshares, and spears become pruning hooks. On the first Sunday of Advent, we focus on the need to hold onto hope and to continue dreaming of, and reaching for, the promised day when there will be peace and all will know love. How does unrelenting hope change us? How does it change our world? Isaiah envisions a world where warring nations convert their weapons into tools for flourishing. How might we live into this vision today? In the words of MLK Jr., “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”