Comments on: .: The HOPE We Need… http://terminalconfession.com/2009/the-hope-we-need/ ... weaver[blog] ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:09:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: weaver http://terminalconfession.com/2009/the-hope-we-need/comment-page-1/#comment-79 weaver Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:53:56 +0000 http://terminalconfession.com/?p=163#comment-79 <strong>Thank you for your thoughts. It's an honor to have your comments recorded here on my blog.</strong> The words above were written in the midst of inspiration while I was watching the Inauguration at Viva Espresso today. I am thankful to be both an American and a Christ-follower. <strong>I am also a confessing realist... and a sucker for impassioned hope.</strong> After I posted this blog... I was reflecting on my emotions from this day... and was immediately reminded of a song by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_Confessional" rel="nofollow">Dashboard Confessional</a> (entitled "Vindicated") that communicates my thoughts about the hope that I have been pondering since this morning... "Hope dangles on a string Like slow spinning redemption Winding in and winding out The shine of it has caught my eye And roped me in So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing I am captivated" Thank you for your thoughts. It’s an honor to have your comments recorded here on my blog.

The words above were written in the midst of inspiration while I was watching the Inauguration at Viva Espresso today. I am thankful to be both an American and a Christ-follower. I am also a confessing realist… and a sucker for impassioned hope.

After I posted this blog… I was reflecting on my emotions from this day… and was immediately reminded of a song by Dashboard Confessional (entitled “Vindicated”) that communicates my thoughts about the hope that I have been pondering since this morning…

“Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye
And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
I am captivated”

]]> By: Jacob H. http://terminalconfession.com/2009/the-hope-we-need/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Jacob H. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:11:44 +0000 http://terminalconfession.com/?p=163#comment-76 You're definitely not alone; I too cast my first two presidential ballots for GWB and then my third for BHO. Reading your other remarks, it occurs to me that, while it is possible to be both a Christian and an pessimist, there is something rather unnatural about that combination and if a Christian is anything but an optimist (at least on the larger scales) he or she has probably made a considerable error in thinking about the Divine. Or so it seems to me, anyway; I shall have to think further about this. You’re definitely not alone; I too cast my first two presidential ballots for GWB and then my third for BHO.

Reading your other remarks, it occurs to me that, while it is possible to be both a Christian and an pessimist, there is something rather unnatural about that combination and if a Christian is anything but an optimist (at least on the larger scales) he or she has probably made a considerable error in thinking about the Divine. Or so it seems to me, anyway; I shall have to think further about this.

]]> By: Micah Melton http://terminalconfession.com/2009/the-hope-we-need/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Micah Melton Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:42:49 +0000 http://terminalconfession.com/?p=163#comment-75 I love your hope for our church as whole body and as a nation. Living in a nation of sacrifice is good but least us not not forget that our sacrifice here in America is no where close to the sacrifice of others around the world or of Christ. Happy Inauguration Day. I love your hope for our church as whole body and as a nation. Living in a nation of sacrifice is good but least us not not forget that our sacrifice here in America is no where close to the sacrifice of others around the world or of Christ.
Happy Inauguration Day.

]]> By: Manda Weaver http://terminalconfession.com/2009/the-hope-we-need/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Manda Weaver Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:12:44 +0000 http://terminalconfession.com/?p=163#comment-74 As an American mother I choose NOT to raise my children in fear of what our government may become. I choose to teach them to trust in the mercy, goodness, and justice of our great God. I love my country... I will teach my children to do the same. I choose to actively teach my children the importance and blessing of serving others with the love of Christ. They will be allowed to live IN the world as Christ did. On this day I am grateful for our freedom, as well as our new president. I am thankful to be raising my children in the United States of America. And yes... I too am filled with Hope! "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness." Edward Mote As an American mother I choose NOT to raise my children in fear of what our government may become. I choose to teach them to trust in the mercy, goodness, and justice of our great God. I love my country… I will teach my children to do the same. I choose to actively teach my children the importance and blessing of serving others with the love of Christ. They will be allowed to live IN the world as Christ did.

On this day I am grateful for our freedom, as well as our new president. I am thankful to be raising my children in the United States of America. And yes… I too am filled with Hope!

“My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness.”
Edward Mote

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