8132  Members Only / Purgatory / Postitive/negative, Grace/judgement, God/satan on: November 30, 2006, 04:33:00 PM As you know there really is only one in which everything good is sourced in. Which really leads me to say that if we are thinking rite then we must have a very deep joy and a hope that has enough power in hoping that it over comes all the disheartening circumstances that dash our hopes. There is one Lord, One Church, one Spirit, and One God who is over all in all and through all. That is the one Hope. Christ is the alpha and the omega and He is the hope we have in this life. Hope  really is not in some kind of sentimental thought as if it were a postcard hope, that is not what the apostle is talking about when he says whatever is lovely what ever is true, etc. Put your thoughts on things above where Christ is seated at the rite hand of the Father not on the things of this earth for your life is hid with Christ in God. Christ is really the beginning of hope and the end of hope.