Hope
There are moments when all hope threatens to harden into cynical despair, when our compromises with the powers of the world threaten to exile us from God, our neighbor, and ourselves. It is there, at the brink of the grave, that Christ stands most ready to save, most eager to hold our loss in the fire of love, most thankful that we have come this far, and most able to transfigure everything.
-Br. Keith Nelson, SSJE