HOPE AND CONSEQUENCES Have you ever felt that something or someone was just too far gone? I mean like when your favorite team is losing so bad that, even though the game isn’t over, it’s over. It’s too far gone. You turn off the TV and go to bed. Or, like when a car you’ve enjoyed for years starts to need repair after repair after repair. You want to hang on to it. It’s served you well. You like the way it looks. You like the way it rides. You don’t want another car payment. But your current car is just not long for this world. It’s too far gone. You buy another car. Maybe it’s a person. This person keeps making the same dumb mistake over and over and over again and it’s just destroying him or her. You care about this person, but you know there’s nothing you can do to affect a change in the person’s life. He or she is just too far gone. Have you ever felt that a person is t...