Building up your hope: Danina Stefan’s Thought for the week

‘What can I do to bring hope to this space?’

by Danina Stefan 17th February 2023

This week, after some interesting ministries at Meeting for Worship, I have been thinking about hope. It came to me that despair, the opposite of hope, often comes after we create a wall of strong opinions. This wall may be based on upsetting facts or half-truths, but it doesn’t and cannot include all the facts and truths, since this is simply not possible. When we build this wall, therefore, it involves our opinion, not the absolute truth. The more we believe in it, the more we despair, especially if the facts are alarming.