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The first Christians portrayed hope as an anchor, as though life were an anchor cast on Heaven’s shores and all of us are journeying to that shore, clinging to the anchor’s rope. This is a beautiful image of hope: to imagine our hearts anchored where our beloved predecessors are, where the saints are, where Jesus is, where God is. This is the hope that does not disappoint; today and tomorrow are days of hope.
Happiness in This Life
Pope Francis
One of my favorite poets, Rainer Rilke, shared this advice with a young writer: “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
Faith Unraveled
Rachel Held Evans
You must learn, he told me quite firmly that day sitting cross-legged in front of me, to stop confusing sex with morality. Sex is an animal act like eating and sleeping. It is only we, the human race, who have ritualized it, glorified it, and tabooed it. It really is as simple as that, he said. He got up, and with his half-risen penis preceding him, he went to his bookshelf. And that is how the books began to pile up around the bed.
Miss Timmins' School for Girls
Nayana Currimbhoy
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