longing for a better world
Published on Nov 26, 2015
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longing for a better world
write how you want the world to be better on a star and hang it on the tree
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waiting feels like...
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what helps with waiting?
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counting down?
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tasters?
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Untitled Slide
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sharing with others
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What came into existence
was Life,
and the Life
was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out
of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
John 1 (MSG)
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still longing...
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never alone
"Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of man. If the holiness and the awful power and majesty of God were present in this least auspicious of all events, this birth of a peasant’s child, then there is no place or time so lowly and earthbound but that holiness can be present there too..."
– Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark (Harper San Francisco, 1985)
– Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark (Harper San Francisco, 1985)
The sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be shown to us. Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children’s glory completely...that everything God made would be set free from ruin to have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.
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We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth. Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.
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We were saved, and we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, that is not really hope. People do not hope for something they already have. But we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently.
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Also, the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us with deep feelings that words cannot explain. God can see what is in people’s hearts.
Romans 8:17-27
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hope?
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kingdom come
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Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever. Amen.
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"But we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently."
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