Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sentences on Hope
God in heaven, fill my heart to empty my hands for you and yours.
dw
p.s. Here are some related posts:
So many coats – Mary Oliver
Frederick Buechner – A million things
Hope deprives us of everything that is not God, in order that all things may serve their true purpose as means to bring us to God.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sentences on Hope
What is this hope that dashes all hopes,
yet is the only sure remedy for hopelessness?An anchor that holds us, drowns us,
baptizes us clean, clean,
cleaner than we ever wanted to be
(but always wanted to be)
in water that is life itself
if we will only drown ourselves in it,
suck it in knowing it is the death of us,
us as beings with the right to choose,
for our own selves,
what we hope for,
even if what we hope for
would be the death of us.dw
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We would be,
all of us,
detained at heaven’s border,
seeking life,
fleeing death,
illegal immigrants all;Detained and
forever separated
from our loved ones;Were it not
for God’s outrageous mercy,
his willingness to spend
without limit
his very life
for us
so that we
could be
not only citizens of his realm,
but his very sons and daughters,
sharing his home,
his table,
his very life.dw
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Samuel, we miss you and are praying for you and Julia and Daniel. We want to see your family together again; we want you to worship here with us again. God be with you.
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