Hope...
Thank you, Krista Tippett
I said hope is more an orientation than a virtue, but it is a virtue. And none of the great virtues are meant to be carried alone — none of them. And we err on the side of individualism in this American culture, from which I come. So none of the great virtues are meant to be carried alone. And especially with something like hope or something like love in a time like this, in a world like this, we are called and invited to surround ourselves with others who can walk this path with us and carry something like hope on the days, the weeks, the years when it’s too much for us to ask of ourselves.
The final offering I’d like to make for now, and it’s important, is another quality of hope that is always present, so vivid in my mind as I think back about all these live human signposts of hope. is that a life of hope is at once fierce and persistently joyful.