christian living on Possibility

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.

Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

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...

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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...

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...

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

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.

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...

Hope is reliance upon grace in the face of death: the issue is that of receiving life as a gift, not as a reward and not as a punishment; hope is living constantly, patiently, expectantly, resiliently...

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...

Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Hope, never destroyed, however overthrown, never obscured even amid the storm and dust of ruin, is the prominent characteristic of the Old Testament.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. (Spoken by Galadriel)

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Depth of mercy! Can there be Mercy still reserved for me?

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

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 ...

Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart Could have recovered greenness?

All the cards in the deck of revelation about God’s mercy and kindness are stacked in favor of the unthinkable.

Heavenly Father, give us hearts that wait with faith. Build in us the assurance that you are at work and in control. Forgive us for our impatience, our uneasiness, and our wandering desires when we do...

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 ...

One of the greatest needs of all bereaved people is to have access to someone who will take a risk and be involved—someone who is not afraid of intense feelings, but who will encourage their expressio...