Esther Bennett explains how a deeper understanding of being a child of God transformed her Christian life
It’s New Year’s Eve 2011.
I am reflecting on the past year and writing in my spiritual journal. For the third, or maybe it’s the fourth, year I write down Romans 15.13 as my longing for the coming year: ‘May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit’. A longing. Never, it seems, a reality.