tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27047156430737147282024-02-18T19:18:34.059-07:00Captivated by HopeLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-84245427951277356592023-06-11T08:33:00.002-06:002023-06-11T08:33:41.634-06:00About Him"My God draws near to the humble – really, really near. My eyes are opened to see Him as He is, to receive from Him His own good gifts. Hope is resurrected into something that is not about me at all. It’s about Him."~ All that was Lost, meditation on the song by Michael CardLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-60518706914520568542023-02-25T12:24:00.000-07:002023-02-25T12:24:14.370-07:00Two Daughters “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”~ Augustine of HippoLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-65040316783915661322023-01-30T21:51:00.002-07:002023-01-30T21:51:33.372-07:00Comfort of Sorts"That failed hopedoesn't prove the failure of hopeis a comfort of sorts."~ Wendell Berry, The Handing DownLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-53535552078668049822022-01-08T19:31:00.002-07:002022-01-08T19:31:58.021-07:00Like Dandelions"let me hope like dandelions—obtrusive and resilient, resistant to a fault."~ Grace Kelleyread the rest of the excellent poem at her blogLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-32274904277381375352020-05-14T00:42:00.000-06:002020-05-14T00:44:04.453-06:00Citizen of Another Culture
"Hope that is sustained with neither certainty nor comfort is rare indeed, because it must be based on something beyond the reach of our senses, and we are sense-defined creatures, every one of us. To have hope of this nature is to have crossed over some kind of line somewhere in our life and become a citizen of another culture altogether."
~ Lancia Smith
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-20747703495678996962019-10-04T00:12:00.002-06:002019-10-04T00:12:48.624-06:00Burden of Hope
“We’re called to bear the burden of hope through the wreckage of a broken world.”
~ Aedan Peterson
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-75368547367391966592019-05-26T18:55:00.004-06:002019-05-26T18:55:58.879-06:00I'd Really HopedHave you heard the turn of phrase, “I’d really hoped that…”? This week was the first time I ever thought about it, because I found myself thinking it in a way that was much more intentional, serious, and literal than it usually flows off my tongue.
Usually, it means we’re disappointed, mildly. This week, it meant that I have hoped - really, emotionally, actively, persistently hoped. I have Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-33767459557441652522019-05-26T18:50:00.001-06:002019-05-26T18:50:17.533-06:00Hope to ReceiveOne of my good friends tries not to set unreasonable expectations for how an event will go. She’s been burned in the past, and struggled to have a good attitude. We’ve all been there. I mean, even when playing Settlers of Catan and just setting up for the first couple of turns, so often I find that I had expected things to go differently, and now what am I going to do?
Recently, my friend wasLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-41047047706539014302019-05-26T18:40:00.000-06:002019-05-26T18:40:21.387-06:00Look Up from the FrayThe battle had raged all night long, a small people under siege, their women and children hidden away under caves behind the fortification, their enemies vicious and overwhelming. The outer dike was breached early. The wall fell well into the night. Only the caves and the fortress tower remained defended. And Aragorn stood above the final gates, looking out over his swarming, untired enemies Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-16323464005984437842019-02-10T08:16:00.000-07:002019-02-10T08:56:05.023-07:00Perpetual Praise
"I can hope because He has proven
that He is worthy of
receiving my hopes
as a form of perpetual praise."
~ Taylor Dawn Rosequist
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-48304483294681008592018-11-27T11:23:00.000-07:002019-02-10T08:53:23.910-07:00People of HopeWe are a people of hope, we Christ-followers. Love is to be what defines us, and Paul wrote that love hopes all things. In the past few months I have been overwhelmed with the number of things we are hoping for.
First we are hoping for the return of our Bridegroom, Jesus, the establishment of His kingdom, and the fulfillment of our salvation. This future is promised and sure, Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-69014415467636501762018-11-05T09:41:00.003-07:002019-02-10T09:06:15.734-07:00Solid Rock
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-49677558168770633482018-05-08T16:10:00.000-06:002018-05-08T16:10:42.197-06:00Puddleglums
"It is the work of the Puddleglums,
often with stink
and pain,
to show us that there is something wrong with the way things are,
and
that there is a better country to long for."
~ John Schweiker Shelton
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-23436629371400698502018-03-21T22:19:00.002-06:002018-03-21T22:19:32.369-06:00St. Patrick
I was thinking about St. Patrick
this week. There weren't a lot of Christians in Ireland when he began ministering
there. The pagans were prevalent. But the pagans did not prevail.
The light overcomes the darkness. Don’t forget.
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-90981828069522252132018-03-21T22:15:00.002-06:002018-03-21T22:15:19.378-06:00The Whole Story
"Despair forgets
that there are more pages.
It gazes at the brief span of our lives
and complains
that all should be fulfilled
before
the
page is turned.
But hope loves the whole story.
Hope breathes, laughs, and
draws courage
from gazing upon something grander than self.
It grows in an epic
tale, a tale with joys that
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-73254505158233011022018-03-02T10:33:00.000-07:002018-03-02T10:33:57.354-07:00Courage Every Day
Flax flowers, tall and green crowned with sky-blue petals
bend beneath the water falling on them, stooped double, dripping and dreary
under a summer sky shrouded in grey. Am I made for such a world where the
beauty bows to necessity, where death is such a threat that the glorious sun
must be cloaked, life furled?
I wish I had made these observations while on a walk, but I
was driving.&Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-23153448096367421812017-09-05T18:10:00.006-06:002018-05-08T16:13:14.870-06:00Bad Hoping
"...bad thinking feasts on bad hoping."
~ Samuel James, Book Review, How to
Think by Alan Jacobs
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-88798502657060198032017-07-16T10:28:00.001-06:002017-07-16T10:30:11.572-06:00Borrow
My friend sent me this
article, because she knows me. A
stranger, who is, strangely, a sister with whom I will spend eternity, draws
familiar with her testimony, speaking of how God reminded her that He is with
her in the details of her life, in the scary and the frustrating and the
difficult. He spoke a single time to
her, and once the story played out a little, it was proof that HeLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-64474587036913024872017-06-28T04:23:00.001-06:002017-06-28T04:23:19.494-06:00Psalm 84:11
I hear it, but I’m only half-listening. On purpose.
I’m distracting myself groping for the truth to counter these lies, the
lies that don’t whisper quiet, but yell, from everywhere some days… There it is.
The truth:
“No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
There is good to experience in this world, and that’s
hopeful.
There Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-83594095802780106032016-12-20T22:50:00.002-07:002016-12-20T22:50:24.267-07:00If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee
"If thou but suffer God to guide thee
And hope in Him through all thy ways,
He’ll give thee strength, whate’er betide thee,
And bear thee through the evil days.
Who trusts in God’s unchanging love
Builds on the Rock that naught can move."
~ Georg Neumark, translation by Catherine Winkworth
This is verse one of a seven-verse hymn John Piper describes in his discussion of his Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-26468534391854878252016-11-27T14:21:00.000-07:002016-11-27T14:21:19.166-07:00As are dawn and sunrise...
“Unfulfilled and
fulfilled promise are related to each other,
as are dawn and
sunrise.
Both
are promise
and in fact
the same promise.
If anywhere at all,
then it is precisely in the light of the coming of Christ
that faith has become
Advent faith,
the expectation of
future revelation.
But faith knows for
whom and for what
it is waiting.
It is fulfilled faith
because it lays hold
on Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-51844355279815385852016-11-05T09:27:00.003-06:002016-11-05T09:27:43.268-06:00Why Should I Buy and Why Should I Build?
Lamentations is one of the fiercest books of the
Bible. The prophet dares to know that God is good when there is not a
speck of hope, when people are suffering and dying and refusing to
listen. He declares God’s mercy, bowed for the sake of man’s
sinfulness. And God can take everything, but this worship will stay – not
the tender worship, but the hoarse shout of desperate truthLisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-19835546102798704792016-10-25T14:14:00.002-06:002016-10-25T14:14:21.117-06:00Only If We Endure
"Mostly we want to get away
from suffering, and will often take the quickest path possible to escape it.
And then we feel hopeless. Things will never change. I never noticed this
connection that God makes though- suffering producing endurance producing character
producing hope. Suffering leading to hope! But only if we choose to endure (and
yes, I think that sometimes enduring is a choice if Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-26315888801500951602016-09-15T10:25:00.000-06:002016-11-27T14:22:14.180-07:00Dare Not
"To hope, for
thou dar'st not despair."
~ Francis Thompson
Lisa of Longbournhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497065661948900794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704715643073714728.post-47509172586588646562016-07-16T01:31:00.000-06:002016-07-16T01:31:03.251-06:00For A Name
"Instead of the thorn
shall come up the fir tree,
and instead of the brier
shall come up the myrtle tree:
and it shall be to YHWH for a name..."
- Isaiah 55:13
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