Hope

Be of good courage, and [God] shall strengthen your heart.

 Psalm 31:24

We human beings are so made that we live in our own fancied future. This is not a policy decision but simply the way we are. To look forward, to dream of happy things to come, to want what is good to continue and what is bad to end, and to long for a future that is better than the past is as natural as breathing.

~ J.I. Packer, in Knowing God


Painting ~ The Garden of Felicien Rops at Essone 1910
Theo van Rysselberghe 1862-1926
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