At this time of Advent, God's people are encouraged to focus and reflect on the hope that the Eternal offers and reveals in Jesus. I invite you to post your hopes for the future on this blog.
To kick this off, one of my hopes for the Presidency of Barack Obama is that he might be able to bring some sanity and humanity to the troubled areas within Africa.
Shalom to you and your loved ones this Christmas time.
Stephen
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Sorry I missed this new one kicking off trinityblogger; bit busy over the Christmas and New Year. Hope is an interesting thing; it can be everything from an excuse for doing nothing to the motivating power behind our efforts towards change. In a Christian context it can perhaps have the same range from those who hope for better things but wait for God to intervene to make things right to those for whom, again, hope is that motive power to action. For me, I suppose, hope is that of Christ which I find to be within me, offering a different reality, a different possibility, revealing potential in self, others and situations. It is, I think, the ability (gift) to live with one foot in the realities of the present and the other in a different tomorrow, to know, as I put it in one of my songs, "That what lies before us is more than it seems." Hope is, therefore, a spiritual comfort while also being a spiritual and practical challenge. So, for the new year, for Obama, for Palestine, for all our bloggers and readers and our communities, let hope be our constant companion. Last word to Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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