Comments on Growing Is Beautiful: When It's Time To Plant Hope

@Chris: I do so enjoy the quotes you post here fo...

2012-01-25T14:36:05.003-08:00

@Chris: I do so enjoy the quotes you post here for me--I am not particularly well read and it is a gift to be given little treasures from wise authors I've not had a chance to learn from yet.

And this idea that hope is "a secret witness that He has taken possession of us"--such beauty here. I am still pondering the idea of God as my Home and these words are stirring up my thoughts today. Thank you so much for sharing them.

(and translating Italian back into English? I am duly impressed but somehow not entirely surprised :o)

Grace to you, Friend!

@tinuviel: That sentence you love? It was an ele...

2012-01-25T14:29:23.897-08:00

@tinuviel: That sentence you love? It was an eleventh-hour addition I wasn't expecting to make. But once it was written, I knew it needed to be there. And, oh, how grateful I am that He is faithful--no ifs, ands, or buts. Nothing we can do can change His faithfulness towards us--Grace!

I read Anne of Green Gables as an adolescent and loved the books then, but it has been wonderful to revisit them and find them as sweet and engaging as they were at the first. And to be called a kindred spirit? Joy. Just--thank you. I have certainly felt the same.

(I'm nearly finished with the first leg warmer--now just to make one to match! I'm rather enjoying myself now that the initial pain of learning is over :o)

it's a joy to hear that you're starting th...

2012-01-24T11:24:59.288-08:00

it's a joy to hear that you're starting the new year "with hands full of Hope"!

have you ever read any Thomas Merton? your post made me think of the second chapter of his book, No Man Is An Island. Here's a bit I hope you'll like:

If we hope in God, we already possess Him, because hope is a kind of trust that He creates in us, as a secret witness that He has taken possession of us. So the soul that hopes in God already belongs to Him, and belonging to Him is the same thing as possessing Him, because He gives Himself completely to those who give themselves to Him.

(or words to that effect: my copy of the book is an Italian translation that I've translated back into English above. but i think it's a beautiful enough passage to survive my translation...)

may you hold fast to Hope, now and always...

This is my favorite sentence from the post: "...

2012-01-24T09:44:54.400-08:00

This is my favorite sentence from the post: "No year's hopeless unless we choose it to be--and even then, He slips in quiet while we're lost in the dark, plants His Hope where we think there'll never be life again." As Paul said, He is faithful even when we are faithless (or hopeless).

I love Anne, too, although I did not meet her until my twenties. When the other Ann (Voskamp) pointed me to your blog, it felt like meeting one of Anne's "kindred spirits."

Grace to you, and happy learning of your knit and purl.