Why are some people full of hope, while many of us struggle to get past the snooze alarm? Hope often seems elusive--both to explain and to experience. So we find ourselves instead clinging to lesser substitutes. From self-medication to lazy clich s, we apply these balms to our pain and experience little to no comfort. But we know, in our guts, that these replacements aren't the hope-filled lives we long for, the lives we were made for. Mark Oestreicher...