Hope is the practice of looking at a bad situation in front of you, and believing hard that good can still win...
Examen is a practice of examining your life backwards, over a given period of time, and prayerfully reflecting on two things: 1) Where you noticed a sense of God’s presence, or closeness; and 2) Where you felt absent or disconnected from that sense.
Perhaps you are familiar with what is famously known as the shortest verse in all of scripture, John 11:35: "Jesus wept"...