strange thing life
Hope is an odd commodity. It has the ability to completely change our perspectives on our lives. It changes our perspective and not our lives. So many things try desperately, to no avail, to change our lives. Hope simply chooses to transform our uncertainty and our difficulty into the promise for a better tomorrow or for relief just around the corner.
In the end I am suspect but try not to be. I believe that hope is the way to go but can't manage to silence the cynnical 'logic' floating through my head. At some point in our culture the word 'logic' managed to include some natural aversion to the supernatural. Strange that this process of logic cannot be applied to that realm.
How's that for stream of consciousness?
In the end I am suspect but try not to be. I believe that hope is the way to go but can't manage to silence the cynnical 'logic' floating through my head. At some point in our culture the word 'logic' managed to include some natural aversion to the supernatural. Strange that this process of logic cannot be applied to that realm.
How's that for stream of consciousness?
posted by whiteforks at 12:46 a.m.
2 Comments:
abandonment.
of all expectation?
how is it possible to "hope" and not fall into the trap of procrastination or "avoidance of the present in anticipation of something better coming later on"?
That's my crutch- hope becomes nothing more than avoidance of the present. If you string the present along long enough, eventually you end up at the future...right where you began...
There has to be another way to look at this commodity called hope...how?
i think the answer to the above question in the context of Christianity comes from the idea that Christians are not called only to hope.
faith, hope and love seem to be classically intertwinned.
my current working definition of faith is trust in God, trust essentially that He is in control of the future and that He is in fact directing my life. I think too often I desperately want to know everything about tomorrow and rail against God for not giving me direction when He has in fact given me direction for today and asks that i, in faith, leave tomorrow to Him.
love, in my mind, is intrinsically active. we cannot in any real sense passively love. even love across distance with no physical connection must be active or it is dead.
it is the necessary combination of these three concepts that allows us to hope for the future, have faith that God is in control of it and out of love, to act in the present.
my two cents
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