Hope

No sermon manuscript this week, but some words from Gustavo Gutierrez to consider and ponder.

"We look with faith for the triumph of righteousness and the life everlasting."

United Church of Acworth Faith and Covenant

"To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.  But the gift is accepted in the negation of injustice, in the protest against trampled human rights, and in the struggle for peace and fellowship."

Hope leads her two older sisters, faith and charity.  "But this will be true only if hope in the future seeks roots in the present, if it takes shape in daily events with their joys to experience  but also with their injustices to eliminate and their enslavements from which to be liberated.  Camus...said 'true generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present.'"

Gustavo Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation, p. 125