{"id":1249,"date":"2018-12-07T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:57:43","slug":"hope-waiting-for-the-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2018\/12\/07\/hope-waiting-for-the-not-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope &#8211; waiting for the &#8220;Not yet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1239 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-100x55.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-830x467.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-230x129.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Advent02-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Everyone hopes. It&#8217;s a looking forward to something, or someone. &nbsp;It&#8217;s the possibility of change for the better. &nbsp;In the midst of brokeness and pain we hope for something better. &nbsp;Kids find it natural to hope. As adults, most us have tempered our hope against our experiences of life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s truly human to hope, but the Bible tells us that it&#8217;s not only humans that hope. The Bibles outlook is that creation is looking forward to a change, longing for better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Bible<\/p>\n<p>projects video on hope.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4WYNBjJSYvE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO LISTEN, TO LOOK&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Anne Weems, Kneeling in Bethlehem)<br \/>\nIs it all sewn up-my life?&nbsp;<br \/>\nIs it at this point so predictable, so orderly, so neat,&nbsp;so arranged, so right,&nbsp;<br \/>\nthat I don&#8217;t have time or space<br \/>\nfor listening for the rustle of angels&#8217; wings<br \/>\nor running to stables to see a baby ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Could this be what he meant when he said<br \/>\nListen, those who have ears to hear. ..<br \/>\nLook, those who have eyes to see?&nbsp;<br \/>\nO God, give me the humbleness of those shepherds who saw<br \/>\nin the cold December darkness<br \/>\nthe Coming of Light<br \/>\nthe Advent of Love!<\/p>\n<p>So what are you hoping for ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone hopes. It&#8217;s a looking forward to something, or someone. &nbsp;It&#8217;s the possibility of change for the better. &nbsp;In the midst of brokeness and pain we hope for something better. &nbsp;Kids find it natural to hope. As adults, most us have tempered our hope against our experiences of life. It&#8217;s truly human to hope, but the Bible tells us that it&#8217;s not only humans that hope. The Bibles outlook is that creation is looking forward to a change, longing for better. &nbsp; Check out the Bible projects video on hope. TO LISTEN, TO LOOK&nbsp; (Anne Weems, Kneeling in Bethlehem) Is it all sewn up-my life?&nbsp; Is it at this point so predictable, so orderly, so neat,&nbsp;so arranged, so right,&nbsp; that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}