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“It’s from the impure day that she [Hope] makes the pure day.” –Charles Peguy, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, 109 In the beloved children’s book Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley (the main character, an orphan who repeatedly gets herself into a series of scrapes) relies heavily on the hope that “tomorrow is […]

“Take the very hardest thing in your life – the place of difficulty, outward or inward – and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot.  Just there, he can bring your soul into blossom.” Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Cross Lilias Trotter’s words are what the best Hallmark cards aspire to but never […]

“Hope, too, is she who is always playing.” –Charles Peguy’s Portal of the Mystery of Hope This is the third in a series on hope by Jenna Miller. Did you ever catch the PBS kids’ show The Big Comfy Couch?  It was about this girl clown, Loonette, and her dolly who have a home base […]

This is the second in a series by Jenna Miller. I’ve been taking Charles Peguy’s poem, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, slowly these past few weeks. In the poem, Peguy writes of consecrating children, his children, to Mary and says, Ever since that time everything has been going well. Naturally. How would you […]

“Now, the little girl hope Is she who forever begins.” –Charles Peguy, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope I don’t know about you, but the goals of my daily grind have more to do with finishing than beginning.  It’s satisfying to cross something off of a to-do list.  “Finishing” is a gratifying illusion in […]