Thought for today - 08/13/2011

     HOPE
"Much that we hold fast to we will let loose, and much we have lost we will find, and for those as long accustomed to the dark as we, the great light will doubtless bring great tribulation as well as great benediction before we rise up in the splendor of it whole and new at last.  But greater things than this we shall see is the promise, and, by God's grace, greater things than this we shall become."
     ~Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons