The new episode of the HM Magazine Podcast is great. I'm listening for the second time now. Very fun.
I went to see Norma Jean play at Emo's in Austin last night. A very energetic and fun show.
Okay, McManus is talking more about how -- no matter what you believe or faith you have in spiritual matters -- hope and dreams are necessary for living. He defines despair as "to live apart from hope." A sad place to set up camp and live, for sure...
"I guess if you think about it, if it wasn't for God, we might find ourselves capable of drowning in despair and thinking it was our natural habitat. Instead, we will always be haunted by this soul craving, this seemingly irrational need for hope."
I like the logical point he brings up next (more apologetics/reasoning on the existence of God -- I love this stuff...):
"We should be able to live perfectly well without God and without hope. But neither proves to be the case. Ironically, when we should least believe in even the existence of hope, when we are most consumed with a sense of our insignificance, it is here we will crave it the most. You can't give up on hope and go on with life. Without hope your life may not come to an end, but it does come to a stop."
It's interesting to ponder deeper into something as simple and matter-of-fact as hope. We certainly take it for granted some times, huh?
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at October 12, 2007 11:02 AM