https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2910 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:23:25 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2910 Helpful distinction — and needed…

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2909 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:17:33 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2909 Trite does not make it false: inch-by-inch, anything’s a cinch! Well written (and well referenced). I love it when God’s truth is trumpeted by non-believers and by those outside the faith community (not necessarily meaning Seth Godin, whose own relationship with our Father I do not know).

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2908 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:43:34 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2908 Dr. Murray, greetings.I’m sorry about clogging up your comments like this, but I sent an email out to you about two weeks ago now (to PRTS) and was wondering if it made it through.Thanks for your time.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2907 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:02:08 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/06/14/hope-and-the-magic-lottery/#comment-2907 Plugging and plodding along with little recognizable success is perhaps the toughest thing, mentally and spiritually, that we can undergo.Most recently, reading the story of Abraham… he was 75 when God promised him offspring… 25 years later at the age of 100 it was fulfilled. Oftentimes, in waiting for Isaac, we take matters into our own hands and try to conceive an Ishmael, thinking we’re helping God along. Trying to learn to trust, hope and plod faithfully.

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