Hope for 2010

Enjoy reading these poems on “Hope”…….. 

Hope 

(on reading ‘Beyond Homelessness, (1) and ‘Hope in Troubled Times’(2). 

  

Is there just ‘cold, blind indifference’ 

To  our questions and striving 

For meaning and coherence, 

Any answers, mere contriving? 

Hope is the confident  expectation 

Of a future good in imagination, 

Looking for the real possibility, 

Longing for the coming reality. 

Imagination, faith and desire 

Combined in a vision to inspire. 

In research  even if there is some distortion, 

Efforts misdirected , want of proportion, 

And some actions remain  unimplemented 

Focus changes before  plans are cemented, 

Hope drives us on to endeavour again 

Not to submit to despair, “It’s all in vain”. 

I am required to ‘love justice, do mercy’, 

Renew my mind, called to work righteously, 

Improve my service, do good to all 

Reverse the corroding effects of the Fall, 

Strive for His will to be done on Earth 

Now and in the future World’s rebirth. 

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1. Beyond Homelessness, Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement. 

Bouma-Prediger S, Walsh .J. 2008.  Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eerdmans 

2. Hope in Troubled Times. Goodzward B., Vander Vennen M., Van Heemst D, 2007. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Baker Academic 

HOPE 

Not a ‘fond hope’, something just desired. 

Not a ‘hope against hope’, unlikely acquired, 

But a ‘living hope’ based on our Lord 

His death and resurrection, trustworthy word. 

Hope, not just a vague wish. 

Hope, not  a ‘forlorn’ uncertain ‘ifish’, 

But steadfast and sure 

An anchor for the soul, secure. 

A hope of Heaven, of Paradise: 

Peace, no pain, fears, or vice. 

Then a New Heavens and Earth 

The Universe restored : new birth. 

We’ll meet our Lord, faith becoming sight 

Joining our loved ones to our delight; 

Unimagined possibility 

For service through eternity

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