[The_Eaglet]

(Hope's a Christian commission short in supply ... as opposed to Optimism, which is a totally different ballgame, of course.)

Hope is available for people to claim through Jesus Christ, but if they spurn it they may lose the opportunity to get it again.

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:5-8

[Askel5]

I had a pretty rough week last week -- worst in I don't know when, actually. Luckily, I'd been rationing Gabriel Marcel's HOMO VIATOR: INTRODUCTION TO A METAPHYSIC OF HOPE to myself and had it handy on the shelf behind my bed night before last.

This is what came up, Russian Roulette style as I reached out for a life ring.

Given the passage of the Omnibus Intel Bill, I went ahead and included the portion about the Patriot on the page following the random page to which I opened.

cheers, Eaglet.