Nonsense

Buttercup: We'll never survive!

Westley: Nonsense.  You're only saying that because no one ever has.

~ The Princess Bride

Magical Place

"Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained.  --  The end." 

~ a villain from the movie Holes

Near the end of the movie:

The Time Before

"It will rain.  

Yes, it will.  

Sometime.  

It's just the time 

before it rains that is hard.  

It always is." 

~ Skylark (1993 film)

Passion of Patience

I wonder what this means?

"Fool! All lies in a passion of patience: my Lord's rule." 

~ Taliessin through Logres by Charles Williams

The quote is used in a discussion in CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength about waiting for orders, while it seems the circumstances are desperate and the good guys are doing nothing while evil advances.  But I'm curious what it means in the context of the original poem, Mount Badon.

Traveled A Long Way

"Some people try to turn back their odometers,

not me,

I want people to know why I look this way.

I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads

weren't paved."

One time a friend told me that waiting a long time to get married would all be forgotten once I actually get married: like the time will be erased; it will seem like a blink of an eye.  But I hope that isn't true.  The time spent has been on purpose - God's purpose.  In this time I have learned things that I didn't know: the road of hope was unpaved; with God over these years I have pioneered some new areas of my life, and maybe even among my friends.

What's more, the long-waiting does somewhat sweeten, and deepen, the potential fulfillment.  I understand differently what it is that I want, and why I want it.

I'm not afraid of scars, wrinkles, smiles, light in my eyes that testify to what God has brought me through.  

Resisting

Sometimes I resist hoping, not because I don't want the good thing to happen, but because I don't want to be emotionally invested there.  I don't know whether this is right or wrong.  I do believe God is growing my capacity to hope in more situations.

Granted

God says He gives desires of our hearts when we delight in Him and that we have whatever we ask, because He hears us and desires us to bear fruit.  

Hope and waiting are part of His world but only because fulfillment also is.