Suffering, Endurance & Hope

I'm here... at last...?? Sorry Ee Lin, Alvin and whoever who's been here and not found anything since my last post. Speaking of which, my "to-do-list"...I didn't accomplish one item on the list, not letting my blog die. And YES it die-ded again!! I'm so not good at keeping resolutions but i'll do it this time... (hopefully??) lol!

Talking about hope, i came across this verse today while reading Romans.


Romans 5:1-5 (RSV)

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.


The extract is really encouraging as well as enlightening...

Talking about hope... I think i wrote a poem on hope sometime ago last year in this blog..
But for your information..
More of my poems are posted on
http://www.8hop.com/profile.php?user=eternal-memories

kays... will update soon...