The Commitment to Hope Is a Choice

To look at the world is to be tempted by despair. And i think a lot of us are feeling that right now. We have to commit to hope as a choice, as a moral choice or otherwise we're going to become indifferent bystanders who allow terrible things to happen in this world without lifting a finger. It's much easier to talk about this than to really break through those moments of darkness. What would it look like to have a weekly practice of connecting with a friend, to reach for hope together, to share our our despair with one another? I'm not talking here about clinical depression, which is an entirely different category but just the sense of encountering darkness we feel when we readth