Life is never without its problems. Things happen.
The beauty of the human spirit is that we are able to live through them. We are able to carry on.
How do we do this?
How do parents who’ve lost a child carry on? Or the person who’s lost a job, a livelihood his family depends upon? How do we get through injustice, lying stealing, cheating, killing?
Our world is full of these things–yet most of us carry on.
We carry on because we have Hope. Despite all of the above, and more, we believe there is goodness in the world, too. Goodness in our lives.
Oddly, the things that happen to us, often bring out our goodness, more than they bring out our hatred, or vengeance, or lack of forgiveness.
This is what Hope accomplishes–a conquering of self-pity. It stirs courage within us to go on with our lives and make the best we can out of them.
And where does it come from? We are born with it. We are created in its image. We will be guided from within, if only we let ourselves be.
So whenever the holes in our lives appear, remember the Hope we have inside to fill them. Stir that hope, and keep stirring it, through prayer, through positive people, through continuing to love others. Stir it until courage comes, to begin again.
Translating a World on the Edge 