If you could calculate if the level of hope in your life has gone up or down since the Coronavirus hit, what would you answer? Navigating sudden change or obstacles in our lives does impact our level of hope. I am going to share the true story of salmon in…

We Have Commonality What do someone with depression, a cancer survivor, a recovered drug addict, an abused child, a father of a son with autism, a divorced mother, and a young widow all have in common? Each of these people used hope to survive and thrive in these challenging live events. I have…

Where is God in hard times? Where is He when viruses, earthquakes and war are sweeping through the world? Doesn’t He know? Doesn’t He care? Is He really there? May I share a few of the lessons I learned going through a hard time which I have since applied in…

An old story we should revisit and reapply 175 years after it was published. Did you know that an average of 10,000 people per month search the following two phrases: Why am I so ugly? Why am I ugly?

In 2018 I decided I was going to launch a podcast and I did all the initial work on it. I picked a title, Stories of Hope in Hard Times, and I got the logo designed. …

*Taken from an interview of John Lee Dumas by Tamara K. Anderson on the podcast Stories of Hope in Hard Times. What would you do if you were in a job that was taking you in a direction you didn’t want to go? Would you dare change? …

*Taken from an interview of Andrea Jean Sorensen by Tamara K. Anderson on the podcast Stories of Hope in Hard Times. What would you say to a mother who is finally sober from drugs if you knew you would never talk to the “real” her again? Andrea Jean Sorensen found…

Confession: For most of my life I did not know who Richard Paul Evans was. I recognized his name as a famous author, but I hadn’t read any of his books. That all changed one day about five years ago. My fifth-grade son loved writing little comic strips and simple…

Confession: I didn’t set a New Year’s resolution on January 1st of last year. I was busy getting Christmas packed away, my children back into a regular routine, and my house back to normal. Besides, each year I set resolutions and then didn’t look at them again until the end…