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Subject: faith, hope, love Author: ak [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:01:59 05/07/02 Tue Chad and Jon, your postings are cool. Yeager, you touched on something that I think is crucial to this whole process of responding to suffering, to life. That is faith. Faith, hope, and love. These are so interrelated and even overlap with one another. In my life today, these three words define what Christianity is. The hoping process can only build upon faith. Faith in what God has done in the past. God reveals himself as true and loving. We remember this as true, and have faith. Faith is of the past. Our hope is based in this faith in God's character. It transforms the past into the possible future. It is a confidence in the memory of God's character and an anticipation for the way he will reveal himself again. Faith, rooted in the past. Hope, a futural anticipation. Love emerges in this intertwining as the present. We experience God's love in the moment where memory meets the possible. Love is the greatest of these, but needs faith and hope to exist. Chad, you touched on the possible. I believe that we as humans are the kind of thing that always is projecting ourselves into the future. We are always asking, what next? What will I do after I am done with this posting. What will I do tommorrow? In this sense, we are always disclosive of our world through projecting possibilities. Suffering corners us. I reduces those posibilities until we say what my friend said, I don't have anything left. I have run out of options. Our life depends upon the possible. It depends on hope. That is the kind of thing we are. ak [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]