Twelve Minutes on Hope

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Hey, I found that “Hope” chapter, because I found my beat up copy of Mere Christianity while cleaning my disaster of an office.

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity on Hope.

Desire, emotions, and feeling things have been suspect of late. I doubt my feelings and pin my desires behind my back as it were, wondering if they will betray me. I put hope in that category too. Hope isn’t an emotion, but it can keep emotions somewhat awake, don’t you think?

This world, in some respects, is a mirage…emotions too, are like steam rising off the pavement after a brief hot summer day. Our culture seems to be mood dependent. Well, if I really soak myself in the cultural abyss, (oh, so dramatic!) it’s more like the Moody Blues.

I guess that’s when faith, HOPE, and love enter, and move us beyond mood dependency.

Times up. Thoughts?

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6 responses to “Twelve Minutes on Hope”

  1. rocksand5 Avatar
    rocksand5

    A brief rain shower on a hot summer day? I can almost smell it! Know why out of faith, hope and Love, the greatest is love? Can’t wait to hear your answer!

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    1. Jerry Avatar
      Jerry

      Yes…oops…rain shower…

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  2. Rose Wolfe (Living Free with disAbilities) Avatar
    Rose Wolfe (Living Free with disAbilities)

    As Beth recently shared:

    “The Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament says, ‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for.’ It’s almost tangible; that’s what substance means. We remember the future in hope. And that, my friends, is what HIRAETH (my caps) is about: it’s a longing unsullied by the vagaries of time or by the chasms of distance. It’s an affliction of the heart that draws us inevitably toward a future we see but cannot touch, a future full of peace and compassion. It’s the allure of the divine, beckoning us toward fulfillment.” – Fr. Gabriel of St. Anthony of the Desert (a Christian Mission in New Mexico)

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    1. Jerry Avatar
      Jerry

      Oh yes! Thanks Rose!

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  3. rocksand5 Avatar
    rocksand5

    🙂

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  4. Jasper Hoogendam Avatar
    Jasper Hoogendam

    Hope: an intertwining of upbringing, worldview, trust, wrapped in a film of selfwareness that is stamped with faith. Elusive and yet real.

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