THIS IS A TIME OF HOPE - TopicsExpress



          

THIS IS A TIME OF HOPE What is hope? It is the pre-sentiment that imagination is more real, and reality is less real than it looks. It is the suspicion that the overwhelming brutality of facts that oppress us is not the last word. It is the hunch that reality is more complex than the realists would have us believe. The frontiers of the possible are not determined by the limits of the actual. And that in a miraculous way, life is preparing the creative events which will open the way to freedom and to resurrection. Suffering without hope produces resentment and despair. Hope without suffering creates illusions, naivete and drunkenness. So let us plant ...(apple trees)...even though we who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see...This is the nature of discipline...And its a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what gives saints, revolutionaries and martyrs the courage to die for the future they envisage. They make their own bodies the seed of their own highest hopes. - Ruben Alvez
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:58:28 +0000

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