I have always been impressed with this quotation from Vaclav Havel. Hope is something deep within each of us.
A quote by Vaclav Havel, former
president of the Czech & Slovac Republic, made during a 1990 address at the Oslo conference, “The Anatomy of Hate”.
I am not an optimist because I am not sure that everything ends well, nor am I a pessimist because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is not a certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have meaning. It is not an estimate of the state of the world. It is something you either have or you don’t, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. It is a dimension of human existence.
I offer this visual presentation and reflection on Hope.
St Paul says:
But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8: 22-25
Dame Julian of Norwich was a Christian mystic who in 1373, at the age of 30 fell seriously ill, so ill that she thought she was going to die. However, in this resigned state she received a series of visions or showings of the passion of Christ. The words I have quoted comes out of her experience of suffering and illness.
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How beautiful, thank you!
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A timely ,message Bob Thanks
Hope seems ever more evanescent these days
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