FAITH
HOPE
LOVE
I have been thinking a little recently about how these three things will remain. This implies that nothing else will remain, which is a pretty crazy idea.
That means that all the things that you do each day that are not about faith, hope, or love, are ultimately insignificant - they will pass away.
Last night I went to meet with the pastor at the Salvation Army, and I noticed that these words were hanging on the wall... which is funny, 'cause I had just come up with the idea of hanging them on the wall at home.
In other news, I am losing most of my faith, hope, and definitely love for the TTC. I know that the weather hasn't been helping, but this IS Canada... so snow shouldn't take anybody by surprise.
And speaking of snow... I had just finished showering this morning when I noticed that the guy that parks behind our apartment was totally stuck. Since he was still there by the time I got dressed, I figured I'd go out and help. It took at least 20 minutes to get him going - every time we managed to move his car a few inches, it immediately got stuck again. We took turns at pushing and driving, and eventually got the car going while I was driving. I managed to get all the way down the alley... at which point he promised to buy me beer - and then took of to go to work.
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nicely done trent. i'm going to your house today!!
what is the TTC?
Jesse - It's like MARTA, for Canadians - except white people use it too.
why would you wanna hang out with white people?
also, is it true that only hope, faith, and love will remain? if there is such thing as heaven, will not the opposite also remain? some would say that either life or death remains even after the physical body dies. george macdonald held the idea that eternity is a continuation of what we lived here on earth in some sense, either our whole being will be consumed by the life that infected our lives here on earth, or our whole being will be consumed by the death that we entered into during our lives. to sum it up, if "heaven" is eternal, won't also "hell" be eternal?
did i miss the point?
sorry to be all up on your post, but i guess ultimately what im saying is: everything is ultimately significant.
"Wouldn't it be nice if everything was so meaningless, but everything is so meaningful... Rejoice..."
Jesse...
I think hell is an absence of faith, hope, and love... so these things remain - but don't remain everywhere. The vacuum where these things aren't is called doubt, despair, and selfcentredness.
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