A Long Engagement by Jason Farley

But the wait, at least sometimes— 
to me, mind you— 
seems like a long engagement.

~ Jason Farley 

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Wrought in Iron

 “Hope 
has not been thought of as something 
light and fanciful, 
but as something wrought in iron 
and 
fixed in rock.” 

~ G.K. Chesterton

Faith Healing and Medicine 

Illustrated London News, Oct. 22, 1910

About 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 Card

Two 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 Hippo

Comfort of Sorts

"That failed hope

doesn't prove the failure of hope

is a comfort of sorts."

~ Wendell Berry, The Handing Down

Like Dandelions

"let me hope like dandelions—

obtrusive and resilient, resistant to a fault."

~ Grace Kelley

read the rest of the excellent poem at her blog

Citizen 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