Michael Downey in “Gifts Constant Coming,” Weavings
by Christian Coon | Dec 12, 2013 | BLOG
Hope is not the same thing as optimism that things will go our way, or turn out well. It is rather the certainty that something makes sense, is worth the cost, regardless of how it might turn out. Hope is a sense of what might yet be. It strains ahead, seeking a way behind and beyond every obstacle.