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Tag: hope

on advent – ii

the crooked made straight

#haiku, advent, hope, Isaiah 40, Luke 3, messianic, prophecy, waiting

on advent – i

we wait and wait…and…

#haiku, advent, darkness, hope, light, waiting

hold on tight

factory-installed

choices, cliff, despair, determinism, fate, free will, hope, Thelma and Louise

the greatest of these…

They say love lasts forever.

1 Corinthians 13, Faith, Hebrews 11, hope, Love

downstream – #SoCS

water carries life and death at once.

Atwood, dystopia, future, hope, Huxley, Orwell, resistance, Utopia

Sonnet II – hope’s lament

I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed

charades, Christ, Christianity, church, fruit of the spirit, hope, Jesus, judge

validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery

termites’ demise

if only I could turn
the whole structure
inside
out

darkness, hope, light, Poetry, sunlight, sunshine, termite

bellis perennis

Her only adornments are hope and innocence
An instinctive modesty, not a conscious constraint

daisy, flower, hope, innocence, Poetry, simplicity

The power of paying attention and gaining perspective

Today I will let others’ words speak: From this morning’s episode of “On Being“, with Krista Tippett: The Summer Day Mary … More

attention, contentedness, Faith, forgiveness, grateful, hope, Life, Love, mary oliver, niebuhr, perspective, thankful
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