Rev. Peter Gomes

Hope is a slippery word and particularly so when it is used in connection with the future and as an antidote to anxiety and fear, but it is just hope that people require in facing their futures; and hope´s greatest power is that it enables the present by embracing the future... Hope does not deny the circumstances of the present, and hope doesn't help us get out of our difficulties.  Hope doesn't get us out, but it does get us through.