Comments on: Hope Of the Unknown

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:59:45 +0000

This line made me smile and feel the corrective, beautiful pain of wisdom all at once…how true:
It’s human nature to want editorial control of our lives. We itch to make our mark.

Appreciate the new perspective on Christmas…waiting for His advent. Thanks for the reminder
that in all our unknowns He is in control. We can trust Him. He is the Way.

By: Bonnie Gray

Bonnie Gray — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:57:45 +0000

@Anne: Thanks for adding to the post. I didn’t know that!
@Joye: What a special name you have. Thank you for sharing and wonderful that you are here.

By: Joye

Joye — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:02:15 +0000

“Thank God I don’t have to be stress-free in order for him to work in me.”

I needed to hear that today!!

Beautiful and true!

By: Anne Lang Bundy

Anne Lang Bundy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:25:33 +0000

One of my favorite Christmas carols has always been “Joy to the World.”

It was not written as a Christmas carol, but as a song of Christ’s second coming.

All of life is a season of advent—the waiting for the Lord’s coming.

By: Bonnie Gray

Bonnie Gray — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:53:21 +0000

@Heather: When I look behind me and see how God worked through past unknowns, I’m also reminded to sit tight – He doesn’t seem to do it any other way!
@Mo: “by accepting the Unknown as a means to show faith and understanding that we are not alone.” This is salve to the waiting souls, who receive the “wrong” encouragement to just “pray harder” or “have more faith”!
@Brett: I hadn’t seen it that way. That is a very good point, Brett.
@Kelly: That is so encouraging, Kelly! Thank you! “waiting, it changes us… hope becomes something altogether different as we release our ideas…” Indeed, it does.
@Doug: Miss your visits, Doug. I hope you and your family have been doing well, recovering from so many changes in the past months. God bless.

By: Doug Spurling

Doug Spurling — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:07:50 +0000

“Jesus came when the world was messed up, arriving small, under the most unpromising circumstances.

This is the very rescue I need because I am small and messed up… and unpromising.” – Thank you Bonnie, I love that…

Unpromising circumstances wrapped The Promise.

By: Kelly Langner Sauer

Kelly Langner Sauer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:42:04 +0000

Bonnie, the thing I love about you is that you don’t have to get poetic or cryptic – you have a knack for saying a thing like it is, and the truth rings out so clear you can’t miss it. I wish I could write like you; it is often so hard to get out of my own head.

I’ve been over a year in advent for me, over a year of that letting go of which you speak. You are so right. The waiting, it changes us. The hope we have becomes something altogether different as we release our ideas of what we want, what we should be into His hand. We learn to hope for a Savior, for the Great Light who redeems us from the darkness.

Thank you for your visit – and your comment – at my blog today. I deeply appreciate His affirmation through you.

By: Brett Barner

Brett Barner — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:03:50 +0000

“It’s human nature to want editorial control of our lives. We itch to make our mark.”

That’s so true! I don’t know about you, but when I edit what I write, I’ll get bogged down in the small things like “your” and “you’re” or where this comma goes, and this one doesn’t. Not that I don’t think that these are important, but I won’t notice that the entire theme is off.

We like to pick and prod at the obvious little flaws in our lives and others, but fail to see the forest of issues through the trees.

Great thoughts, Bonnie!

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By: Maureen (Mo)

Maureen (Mo) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:55:12 +0000

In this season of Advent, we do wait but we need not wait passively. We can prepare . . . by offering a hand to someone in need, by making an effort to say thank you to one who presents us with a gift of kindness, by accepting the Unknown as a means to show faith and understanding that we are not alone and will be provided for, by engaging with the Spirit to spread the spirit of good-will.

There is so much we can do before He comes, and none of need be stressful, only faith-full.