Hope
I need hope. We all do. It is the breath of life. The alternative – despair – is an absolute killer. But how do you find hope when the whole world is going to hell in a basket?
The answer is by looking at the whole world in a different way. Journalists present a world of despair because it ensures that we are anxious to read or watch their next instalment. Politicians present a world of despair so that we come to believe that only they can sort it out. The clergy present of world of despair because they promise an ultimate solution in the next life, provided that we do their bidding in this one.
I prefer to reject a despairing world and see a hopeful world and see what I myself can do in a small way to help to bring it into being. I know that life is difficult. I have difficulties of my own. I know that it is difficult to see light at the end of the tunnel. I myself am not sure even where the tunnel is at present. According to the news, the prospects for the world are not good – but I also see courage and determination, kindness and gentleness, creativity and enterprise and that gives me hope.