The first time that I went on a mission trip was with FOCUS (the Fellowship of Catholic University Students) and was where the mission trips that I lead today to Alaska were born from. This post isn’t about that trip (you can read that here) but it was very influential on how I understand the virtue of hope. It wasn’t until during the mission when I felt my hope in Jesus deeply tested, and that I found strength in hope as Christians understand it: rooted in the Resurrection o