Imagining Hope Fuller
ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE FULLER STORY Ezer Kang, pictured above, finds a model for embracing the other on repeated trips to a medical clinic in Dehli, India p. 12 THEOLOGY A collection of articles curated by Scott Cormode reflects on what it looks like to imagine hope in the midst of pain p. 36 VOICE The Fuller community explores the practices of rest and repentance p. 76 HOPE by Dea Jenkins Failure hits heads like swinging bridges How did I miss that? And where did Your word go? My eyes, bloodshot, peering through strained grains of finely held hope I watch it disappear like falling snow At times, disappointment does indeed crush Soul to bone my heart sinks down into my esophagus I gasp and sip hollow breaths Ready to blow, ready to blow Always Your calm voice whispering Ever gentle, ever kind To wait and to hope To hope against all hope lost To fight against all joy gone To look again Though my neck is tired from the strain and my back is twisted from the journey and my hands have wrung themselves dry Hope Hope again against all hope lost + Phoenix by Dea Jenkins. Watercolor on paper, 9" x 12", 2018. Dea Jenkins (MAT ’19, MAICS ’19) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Pasadena. See more of Dea’s artwork and poetry on pp. 11, 74–75, and 98–99. Find more of her work at DeaJenkins.com. STORY | THEOLOGY | VOICE FULLER ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE + Reimagining Pasadena When we were kids, we used to insist that California had four seasons just like everyone else had—only ours are summer, winter, fire, and flood.
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