by hope we are saved

(also taken from my fb profile)

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

-Erik H. Erikson-

hope is what makes life worth living. life without hope progresses from a slackening of the spring in one's step to a slow, tortuous and painful death of the spirit. and the body weakens in consequence.
and then it is only a few steps away from physical death.

gruesome, but no less real. that's why i believe that it is by hope we are saved. it is by entering fully into the possibility that tomorrow will be better and that we can and will do what is within our power to make it better that we move forward. we stop ourselves from falling into that abyss.

and hope can be shared, it can grow, it can illuminate.