Pandora’s Box

Hope sustains life. Hope is the elixir of survival during our darkest times. The ability to envision and imagine a brighter day gives meaning to our suffering and renders it bearable. When we lose hope, we lose our central source of strength and resilience.

“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”

Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.

Hope brought me here."

"Hope? You pay dear for that. My illusions made me live longer than I should have.

Damnation is your judgment on yourself, and this you will project upon the world. 2See it as damned, and all you see is what you did to hurt the Son of God. 3If you behold disaster and catastrophe, you tried to crucify him. 4If you see holiness and hope, you joined the Will of God to set him free.

Susannah realized, with dawning bitterness, that she could now give the perfect definition of a ka-mai: one who has been given hope but no choices.

Where there is hope, there is difficulty.