Hope and Perserverance

Here's a little ditty that surprised me in its poignancy and similarities to parts of Isaiah, Hebrews, and Romans, and I'm sure other Biblical spots:

"If you were going away somewhere--and you, and you--and the time was made ready, and the day drew near, and you knew in your heart that you would be happy--and this is an elder knowledge that has little to do with fact--wouldn't you cry out to the time of your going, and look forward toward it, with eagerness, to view the curve of the world at the place where the sky bends down?"

From Ben Hur Lampman's The Time of the Crows

It also is just one example of good things I've come across which to me prove the MO "test everything and hold on to what is good".

"Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint." (Isaiah - NLT, 2007)


"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (Hebrews - ESV, 2001)

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will." (Romans - NIV, 1984)