(Ezekial saw the wheel( Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel( Way in the middle of the air! ( Now the big wheel runs by faith( And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --(The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all. hope.) . Joanna Russ
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Hope is a feeling of anticipation and desire for a desired future event to happen. Hope is a belief that something is going to be or will become true in the future. Hope may be a wish for a certain outcome, a perceived benefit, a promise, or an expectation.

Source: On Strike Against God

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