{"id":147,"date":"2009-03-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/hope-is-grace-the-new-satisfie.html"},"modified":"2009-03-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:00:00","slug":"hope-is-grace-the-new-satisfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/hope-is-grace-the-new-satisfie.html","title":{"rendered":"Hope is Grace, the New &#8220;Satisfied Life Moment of the Week&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does having a &#8220;satisfied life&#8221; mean to you?&nbsp; Join the discussion and tell us.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the spirit and substance of this daily column is a &#8220;satisfied life,&#8221;&nbsp; my editor, Holly, suggested it would be a great idea to start a weekly &#8220;moment of the week&#8221; that is about living a satisfied life &#8211; in the midst of trial and troubles.&nbsp; I love that idea.&nbsp; Leave it to Holly, she&#8217;s amazing and clever, and I love this new idea, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of today&#8217;s post, there&#8217;s a link to my Welcome Page, which describes in detail what I mean by a &#8220;satisfied life.&#8221;&nbsp; Take a look when you&#8217;re done reading this, please.&nbsp; There is also a link to the original article I wrote recently about&nbsp; &#8220;Hope is Grace,&#8221; which relates to m first pick in this new series.&nbsp; In the meantime, this regular new feature is about how YOU define a &#8220;satisfied life,&#8221; so here goes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen to start with a post by Kevin Menezes, who so succinctly and simply responded to what I wrote about hope itself being &#8220;grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I agree completely. As scripture says: Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.&#8221; (Hebrews 11:1)<\/p>\n<p>To me, what that Scriptural passage is saying that faith becomes real by our thoughts and the power of our beliefs put into action.&nbsp; Belief becomes faith, which is substantial.&nbsp; Faith then becomes something real by God&#8217;s grace. In other words, believing in God generates your faith, which makes things real.<\/p>\n<p>That, dear readers, is having a satisfied life.&nbsp; The evidence of a life lived faithfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does having a &#8220;satisfied life&#8221; mean to you?&nbsp; Join the discussion and tell us. 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