the law is for those who break it ... it's full of don'ts telling you the things that shouldn't be broken ... but what does that have to do with you ... you've no desire to break anything have you ... ah that's not your problem you say ... your sins are sins of omission ... in you there is no commission or if there is its members never do attend ... but neither is it despair ... what though you have the times to hold your self in contempt you'd still rather read a good book ... what if you never leave your chair your spirit is too active ... though you can't as yet say what it does ... but you might say tomorrow ... and on the day when no tomorrow follows well it still has only twenty-four hours and no matter how drawn out those hours are they still draw to an end ... and that's our consolation ... that the story has an ending ... where's the courage in that ... every so often you need a little courage ... take for example the need for tomorrow ... suppose it's no end at all but a completion ... like a tank of gas that never empties you get to go wherever you want forever
cf 1 tim 1:8-11, and moltmann, theology of hope, intro.3
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