Hope.  In a world that is increasingly full of brokenness, violence, pain, and injustice, hope can sometimes be hard to find.  The Christmas season is a timely reminder that despite the surrounding darkness there is light... hope does exist.  Those three words can change the hardest of hearts and breathe life into the weariest of souls.  And as we see in Isaiah 9 this week, Jesus brings us the hope our hearts so desperately look for.