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    Eugene Peterson
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    Romans 15:13, Psalm 130:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:6-7, Lamentations 3:25-26, Psalm 27:14
    Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to w...

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    Hope In God

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:24-25, Psalm 27:14, Hebrews 11:1, Lamentations 3:25-26
    Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to w...

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    Love Songs All Address God

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    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Psalm 42:1-2, 1 Samuel 1:9-18, Psalm 63:1, Luke 15:11-32, Lamentations 3:19-24, Romans 8:22-23, Exodus 2:23-25, Hosea 3:1, John 20:11-18
    In 1998, Nick Cave*, an Australian rock/pop artist, was asked by the Vienna Poetry Academy to give a series of talks on the nature of song-writing. A year later he gave a slightly revised version of t...

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Deuteronomy 6:12, Psalm 77:11, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 103:2
    Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Deuteronomy 6:12, Psalm 77:11, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 103:2
    Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between the past, present, and future ultimately meaningless: to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that s...

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    Andrew Murray
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    John 14:26, John 16:12-15, Lamentations 3:21-23, Deuteronomy 8:2, Psalm 77:11-12, John 14:26
    Memory is one of the highest powers in our nature. By it day is linked to day, the unity of life through all our years is kept up, and we know that we are still ourselves. In the spiritual life, recol...

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    Thomas Fuller
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    Deuteronomy 6:12, Psalm 77:11, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 103:2
    Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

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    Ernst Bloch
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 71:14, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31
    It is important to learn hoping. Its work does not despair, it fell in love with succeeding rather than with failure. Hoping, located above fearing, is neither passive like the latter nor imprisoned i...

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    Emily Dickinson
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    Psalm 39:7, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 71:14, 1 Peter 1:3, Romans 15:13
    Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Tertullian
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    Matthew 5:14-16, Romans 8:24-25, Hebrews 10:23, Psalm 27:13-14, Lamentations 3:25-26
    Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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    Faith and Feelings Can Go Together

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    Casey K. Tygrett
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    Psalm 42:5, Romans 12:15, Ephesians 4:26, Lamentations 3:19-23, James 4:8-9
    Too often we are given a choice—emotions or faith and belief. Yet as Dan Allender and Tremper Longman observe,  Emotion links our internal and external worlds. To be aware of what we feel can open ...

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    Emily Dickinson
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    Habakkuk 2:3, Romans 12:12, James 5:7-8, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 130:5, Lamentations 3:25-26
    To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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    Julian of Norwich
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    Lamentations 3:22-23, Zephaniah 3:17, Isaiah 54:10, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 103:11
    Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all-wise and may do everything; but that he is all-love and will do everything—there we draw back. As I see it, this ignor...

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    David Dickson
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    Psalm 103:11-12, Lamentations 3:22-23, Ephesians 2:4-5, Psalm 36:5-6, Romans 5:20-21, Isaiah 55:7-9, Micah 7:18-19
    Our mind cannot find a comparison too large for expressing the superabundant mercy of the Lord toward his people.

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Lamentations 3:21-23, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Psalm 27:13-14, Isaiah 40:31
    It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. (Spoken by Galadriel)

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    George Herbert
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    Hosea 14:7, Jeremiah 31:25, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 23:3, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 51:10, Ezekiel 36:26
    Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart Could have recovered greenness?

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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    Deuteronomy 6:12, Psalm 77:11, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 103:2
    What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

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    Wendell Berry
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    Psalm 71:5-6, Isaiah 40:29-31, Romans 15:13, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Lamentations 3:22-23
    Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Psalm 23:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:3-5
    Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

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    How Good to Center Down!

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    Howard Thurman
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    Psalm 46:10, Psalm 62:1, Isaiah 30:15, Psalm 25:4-5, Lamentations 3:40, Matthew 6:19-21
    How good it is to center down! To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by! The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic; Our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences, While some...

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    Fredrick Langbridge
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    2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 42:11, Philippians 4:8
    Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 103:8, 1 John 4:16, Proverbs 3:5-6, Lamentations 3:22-23, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28
    Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

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    Mary Jane Moffat
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    Lamentations 3:22-23, Galatians 2:20, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 43:18-19, James 1:2-4, Philippians 1:6
    Recovery is not a process we can will, but consists of experiencing many small deaths, the passing of significant anniversaries, until our identity is solid and natural in the pronoun “I.”

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    Steadfast, ever faithful God, you are

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    Austin D. Hill
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    Luke 17:11-19, John 6:1-14, Exodus 16:1-31, Philippians 4:11-13, Deuteronomy 8:10-14, Psalm 103:2-5, Lamentations 3:22-23
    Steadfast, ever faithful God, you are always with us. Day in and day out, you provide for us, you show us your grace, you inspire awe within us as we experience your goodness. But almighty God, our me...

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    Dick Ryan
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    Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 147:3, James 4:10
    Healing begins when, in the face of our own darkness, we recognize our helplessness and surrender our need for control… we face what is, and we ask for mercy.

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    Waiting is More than In-Between Time

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    Jason Farman
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    Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25-26, James 5:7-8, 2 Peter 3:8-9, Habakkuk 2:3
    Waiting isn’t an in-between time. Instead, this often-hated and under-appreciated time has been a silent force that has shaped our social interactions. Waiting isn’t a hurdle keeping us from intimacy ...

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    Barbara Kingsolver
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    Romans 8:24-25, Psalm 39:7, Isaiah 40:31, 1 Peter 1:3, Lamentations 3:22-23, Hebrews 10:23
    The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

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    Author
    Gayle Somers
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    Isaiah 55:8-9, Ephesians 3:20-21, Romans 5:8, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 103:10-12
    All the cards in the deck of revelation about God’s mercy and kindness are stacked in favor of the unthinkable.

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    Almighty God, you have surprised us

    Author
    Scott B. Bullock
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    Isaiah 55:8-9, Matthew 13:44, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 139:7-10, 1 John 1:9, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Luke 2:1-20, John 4:7-26, John 21:1-14, Luke 24:13-35, Matthew 17:1-8, Luke 2:25-38, Luke 1:35-38, Hebrews 13:2, Isaiah 43:19
    Almighty God, you have surprised us with your presence in unexpected ways. In the expectations of our routine, we have missed the treasure that you place before us. We come to worship you in community...
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