And at every stop on the tour, I found myself repeating my personal paraphrase of that biblical text, "Hope means believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change".
DATA WATCH Further evidence of weakness in the housing market is anticipated Tuesday, when building permits and housing starts for November are reported.
At a time, when pollsters watch for evidence of campaign-ending movement, Mr. Bush's job approval rating has risen to 49percentt, an improvement over his 44percentt rating two weeks ago.
After all, none of the critics expounding on it today cared enough about it to sit through the trial and watch the evidence presented.
"Hope," Loeb said, quoting Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, "is believing in spite of the evidence -- and watching the evidence change".
I have never been in the presence of a leader with more moral authority than Nelson Mandela, and he showed me the meaning of my best quote, "Hope is believing, in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change".
Even so, some of the figuring out isn't so fun to watch, as evidenced by Instagram's recent attempt to adjust terms of use to better support revenue generation or Twitter's journey from lots of users to a stable business model, a journey that continues to this day.
After that, it was just a question of watching the evidence pile up.
Inspectors watched video evidence showing a child held in handcuffs to secure compliance.
"Survivors are together and respectful as usual," he wrote while watching the evidence.
