Comments on: A Thought For The New Year http://www.springofjoy.org/the-bookshelf/a-thought-for-the-new-year Glimpses of our world... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natalie http://www.springofjoy.org/the-bookshelf/a-thought-for-the-new-year#comment-1594 Natalie Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:40:34 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the-bookshelf/a-thought-for-the-new-year#comment-1594 I reply to your quote with a quote from C.S. Lewis: "Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present: fear, avarice, lust and ambition look ahead" With the New Year, I think we have a tendency to look forward and yes, HOPE for good things: health, happiness, etc. But at the same time, I think we spend too much time looking into the future and not enough time in the present. Can we both have hope for the future while still living day to day in the present? I hope so. I reply to your quote with a quote from C.S. Lewis:

“Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present: fear, avarice,
lust and ambition look ahead”

With the New Year, I think we have a tendency to look forward and yes, HOPE for good things: health, happiness, etc. But at the same time, I think we spend too much time looking into the future and not enough time in the present. Can we both have hope for the future while still living day to day in the present? I hope so.

]]> By: Kristen@nosmallthing http://www.springofjoy.org/the-bookshelf/a-thought-for-the-new-year#comment-1593 Kristen@nosmallthing Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:21:34 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the-bookshelf/a-thought-for-the-new-year#comment-1593 Ooooh, that is pretty! I like that a lot! Ooooh, that is pretty! I like that a lot!

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