neighbor.

Love to one's neighbor has the very perfection of the eternal. Is it really perfection belonging to love that its object is the superior, the remarkable, the unique? I should thik that this would be a perfection of the object, and the perfection of the object would evoke a subtle suspicion concerning the perfection of the love. Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? I should think it would be a merit belonging to the extraordinary and the rare, and that it is extraordinary and rare, but not a merit of the love for it. Are you not of the same opinion? Have you never meditate upon God's love? if it were love's merit to love the extraordinary, the God would be--if I dare say so---perplexed, for to him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love love only the extraordinary.

-Soren Kierkegaard

wine, knitting & rain.

evening-time.

"Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted."

-Brennan Manning

hope; the ultimate anchor.

I love that verse,

that hope anchors the soul.

That God swore on Himself (a promise to Abraham)

so that he would know it was truth.

It's one of those things, that if you don't have it, you desperately miss it,

even if you don't know what you're missing.

Life without hope is pointless and fleeting and just plain exhausting.

Without hope, where's the push for the day-to-day things that you have to do.

Why would you do it, without hope of something?

I find I'm dumbfounded when confronted with a life like that,

a life that goes on and on never changing or growing...

The simplest description is that it's boring,

but more importantly it's lacking..

You could almost say it lacks life.

That "we have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf."

the h o p e of being near Him always.

Hebrews 6:13-20