But what hope does – and thank God for hope – is help us to rise again, not from our strength, but from the strength that comes to us from the deepest wells of the human spirit where God’s divine spirit meets us”
Our hope comes from our yearning for and glimpses of being home, of God with us even in suffering. Our hope comes from a God who is not amongst us in power and domination, but a God who for Christians, is discovered in the birth a baby to peasant parents who lay him in a manger, the feed trough for the animals, in a God who is somehow embodied experienced in Jesus who offers healing compassion to those who are poor, blind, limping through life, who blesses food in order to share it, who speaks of forgiveness, who suffers on a cross…our hope is in his trust in God, our hope is that despite all evidence to the contrary, even on Good Friday , Easter was coming, our hope is in an empty tomb and a life that is not ended in death. Our hope is that we are all at home in God, that we are all coming home to God.