Gabe Fluhrer

My four-year-old was sitting at the table, and as she was sitting there eating, she looked up at me and my wife and said, we're all going to die.

And then she said this, but that's okay because Jesus moved the stone.

One of the things we like to do as a family is travel to the low country of South Carolina.

And in South Carolina geography, the low country is roughly the lower third of the state that runs along the coast.

A very distinctive geography with winding marshlands and rivers and looking out into the sea there.

And about a year and a half ago or so, we were down there with our family.

And at the time, my four-year-old was sitting at the table and we were having supper.

And she was happy as she could be with chicken nuggets.

Don't judge us.

And as she was sitting there eating, she looked up at me and my wife and said, we're all going to die.

Now, coming out of the mouth of a four-year-old, we kind of stunned and looked at each other.

And then she said this, but that's okay because Jesus moved the stone.

And we both, I don't know if it was just the fading sunlight through the hanging moss there overlooking the May River and seeing the beauty of the landscape and just the gorgeous spring day and all of that coming together.

But we both teared up and realized, wow, she's actually listening to us and to what's going on at school.

But I say that in service of as we conclude our time to illustrate the fact that all of us are looking for hope.

And if the resurrection offers us one thing, it offers us hope.

And that's what we'll look at here as we conclude.

The resurrection provides us with unshakable hope.

And as we think about hope, we need to think about the death of hope in our day, consonant with other things that we've noticed to this point.

Hope has died a slow death among us.