24 - 31 May 2009

To help us through the struggles of life we need something or someone to make hope a reality. This realisation is behind this week’s quotation:

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”.

Raymond Williams (1921-1988, novelist, cultural theorist).

Williams does not say how we make hope possible. Religion or spirituality has played a major part in many people’s lives in helping them when despair could easily get the upper hand. My experience is that religion or spirituality needs a human face for this to be effective.