Posts from the ‘Hope / Healing’ Category
Wednesday of Hope – Staring Despair in the Face
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair.
– Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
Wednesday of Hope – Not Fearful of the Night
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
– Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
Wednesday of Hope – Looking Ahead
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Wednesday of Hope – Breathing Hope
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
– Arundhati Roy
Wednesday of Hope – Despite Everything . . . Live in Hope
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
– Etty Hillesum, Letters from Westerbork
If Etty Hillesum could write this with all she endured, we too can be women and men of hope, like this sparrow hanging upside down from tender branch in the dead of winter. In 1943 when Etty and her family were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, she tossed out window a postcard that read, “We have left the camp singing.” She was executed in Auschwitz on November 30, at the age of twenty-nine.
Wednesday of Hope – Hopeful in Bad Times
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.
– Howard Zinn
