RE: Whispering Hope #5 - ~The Joy of Work~

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johnjgeddes (75)in #story • 7 years ago

I feel like Walt Whitman saying this, particularly his poem, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. Whitman had to reconcile 'knowledge about' with 'experience of'.
Once, I confronted a learn'd Theologian and asked him about heaven. He said, "I never think about it - that's another world."

I gave some thought to this and I thought his answer good, up to a point. But we have to be ready with an answer for the hope in us, and what is hope without a heaven?

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creatr (70) 7 years ago

What is our hope, if not "the words of eternal life?"

Where does our hope lie, if not in the future, in the restoration of all things?

For what do we wait, if not the revealing of the sons of God?

Thanks for your regular literary references... I'm woefully under-read... ;)

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johnjgeddes (75) 7 years ago

I agree, creatr, but I don't think you're under-read - it was my profession to spend my life in the literary world and these allusions are simply reflective of that. I'm enjoying these meditations on future glory. They're making me ponder all the aspects of the riches we have in Jesus Christ.

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