How can I not choose hope?

The joy that we experienced together yesterday was a catalyst for hope. Together, we gathered energy and resilience. We found goodness together which will support us in finding it out there in the world. It will inspire us to create goodness out there in a world that feels hardened and careless. Our joy helps to restore our faith in humanity and to be change makers, working towards what we know is possible.

Our Sunday mornings together are about discovering possibilities, whether it be through quiet meditations and sacred readings, or joyful chaos and goat shenanigans! Every moment we create together holds possibilities for the next moment, and the next, and the ones after that. What possibilities will we choose? Will they be the ones we hope for? The joyful, tender, loving moments? As the light returns this season, let it grow in us, too, as we learn and play together, resisting despair, choosing each other.

We Hold Hope Close

By Julián Jamaica Soto

In this community, we hold hope close. We don’t
always know what comes next, but that cannot dissuade us.
We don’t always know just what to do, but that will not mean
that we are lost in the wilderness. We rely on the certainty
beneath, the foundation of our values and ethics. We
are the people who return to love like a North Star and to
the truth that we are greater together than we are alone.
Our hope does not live in some glimmer of an indistinct future.
Rather, we know the way to the world of which we dream,
and by covenant and the movement forward of one right action
and the next, we know that one day we will arrive at home.

Source: “Spilling the Light”