What is hope to you?

[Theodora]

Will look forward to seeing responses here and will also try to visit your blog. ( I too have been rather sporadic in being able to post...including on my blog.)

Intense times for me at present....so perhaps my "hope" at the moment is simply that I CAN stay focused on what I need to do in the present and to trust God for the rest.

Will be thinking/meditating about this one in the days ahead. Thanks so much for posting.

HOPE you're doing well and that this Advent is full of joyful expectation for you. Hmmmmm......perhaps "joyful expectation" might be a definition of the moment for me of "hope?"

Grace and peace to you and yours this day--

Theodora

P.S. If interested, my mini-post on my blog yesterday included an updated picture of my granddaughter. I've now "met" her, but not had much time with her. The family is to be here over the holidays, but, as currently "scheduled," I don't have much ...um...HOPE!...that I'll be "allowed" much time with her or my son and his wife then either. More musings...is "hope" the antithesis of what we'd take to be "realistic assessment"?--- i.e. what I'd HOPE would happen is the opposite of what I can ENVISION happening as current attitudes presently stand.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

Blessings to you, David. I've missed you and your insights and really am glad to see you!!!

My blog: http://theodorasjourney.blogspot.com/

Originally Posted by profnachos

Sorry for being away for so long. I hope to catch up a bit here.

I just posted this question on my blog extending invitations to my readers, but let me repeat it here, and hopefully I will hear from you as well.

Even though hope has a prominent place in our faith ("And now these three remain, faith, hope and love"), I don't remember hearing a sermon about hope.

Perhaps that is a good thing. Both faith and love have been hijacked and perverted by the fundamentalists and transformed into tools of judgement and condemnation. Faith has come to mean putting your trust in the fundamentalist system. Love means to "tell the truth" by tell you that you are in sin when you don't submit yourself to the system.

So perhaps hope is our last hope . I don't remember anyone condemning anyone because of hope, or a theological debate about hope ending up in a brawl. Can you imagine that? "Hey you infidel, your hope sucks!"

But what is hope to you? And how does one exercise it?

At what point does a hope become a pipe dream and wishful thinking?