Doesn’t everyone deserve to have hope?
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Month: November 2022
Week 45. Hope for Justice. Attention.
Do you find hope when you look around you reading “ the signs of the times?” We are meant to look at the world with clear eyes, to see what is happening, and be attentive. But this attention is of a particular type, it is not the attention of the scientist or the philosopher or the politician—though it can include those. It is an attention to the things of God.
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Patience and persistence are two keys to hope. Today’s way of living certainly doesn’t help us cultivate these qualities. Many of us have to deal with negative thinking, codependency, fear of abandonment, shame, and guilt. We often feel weak, unsure, and powerless against such terrifying and constant forces.
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Truth is the foundation of hope which helps us rise to greater heights. We can soar to a place where we see outside ourselves and notice the needs of others.
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth in a word, to know himself so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
Pope St. John Paul II
Lord, draw me to the fullness of truth knowing the hope of justice.
Week 45. Hope for Justice. Perspective.
Living justly makes me hopeful. It changes my perspective, seeing beyond my limitations.
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To live justly we must constantly walk through the doorway of our shared inheritance.
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Living justly requires effort on my part. I must fight the path of least resistance and wake up to the fullness of life around me.
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Life is about becoming. It’s not about doing and having. These are the distractions that get in our way.
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In a culture where everyone is screaming for their rights, are we losing who we are? Are we asleep to the people that God created us to be?
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I am called to be your partner in justice. We are all called to be saints. Grant me the courage to go to the places of injustice and work to reveal the glory of Your kingdom.
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