Hope"Hope prevents us from clinging to what we have and frees us to move away from the safe place and enter unknown and fearful territory."Christian hope is based neither on self-confidence derived from one's personality, nor on specific expectations for the future, but on a promise given. "This hope stretches far beyond the limitations of one's own psychological strength, for it is anchored not just in the soul of the individual but in God's self-disclosure in history." Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer |