Hope and Life

We live in perilous times, but it doesn’t mean hope has abandoned us. We should, therefore, not abandon hope here. That is what integrity looks like.

If we are true to hope, then death, not even the threat of death, cannot eliminate us. We need to continue to discover each other, which requires attention. We must see and then focus on each other. As we recognize our humanity, we will do godlike things.

The largest streams of Christianity call for people to accept Jesus as both human and divine. For Christians, therein can be found the justification to be both humanist and theist.

This is the hope in the Easter story. This hope combines the hopeful and the hopeless, the able and the disabled, the weak and the strong, and the dead and the living in trans-mortal ways that are both human and divine. Jesus is recorded to have said, “The works that you see me do shall you also do, and greater works, because I go to my Father.” In his death and resurrection, in “going to the Father,” we find regenerative capacities for thriving.

Our very existence, our being, proclaims possibility.

Because of hope, we can live. Because of life, we can hope.