Hope

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer once warned against cheap grace, and I warn now against cheap hope. Hope is not merely the optimistic view that somehow everything will turn out all right in the end if everyone just does as we do. Hope is the more rugged, the more muscular view that even if things don’t turn out all right and aren’t all right, we endure through and beyond the times that disappoint or threaten to destroy us.”

Finally getting around to reading The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus after picking it up last fall. So far, it’s a pretty painful read, the kind of pain you get after going to the gym for the first time in ever.

~ by sliny on April 7, 2009.