Here's Hoping: Recovering Hope for Heaven and Earth - Stuart Mcalpine

Descriere Here's Hoping: Recovering Hope for Heaven and Earth - Stuart Mcalpine

\n'Here's Hoping'. The title is tongue-in-cheek. By saying here's hoping we usually fake hope because in reality we are not that hopeful. It is spoken without much confidence or hope at all and betrays uncertainty. We say it as we cast our wants and wishes, without much conviction, into the winds of fortune and the whims of the future, but without any sense of a guarantee for the desired result. Here's hoping speaks of longing that is not firing on all cylinders, of a dream or desire that is likely to stay that way, unrealized and unrequited. When we say it, we do not think cross my heart and hope to die. That kind of vigorous assurance and commitment is not usually prompting the phrase. It is less about crossing the heart and more about crossing the fingers. It is less about surety and more about good luck. To say here's hoping is to prepare oneself for potential disappointment. Ironically, it is more an expression of hopelessness than hope. This book gives the reasons we can say Here's hoping with assured anticipation and confidence

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Westbow Press

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ENSTK

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9781664289970

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1

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