The Resolute Woman

Category: hope

  • The Way of Peace

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    The scenes on the TV screen from Ukraine are disturbing, haunting. What can I do? I found a book called The Way of Peace—Readings for a Harmonious Life compiled by editors Michael Leach, Doris Goodnough and Maria Angelini. It does not offer simple answers to complex problems, but there are glimpses of solutions for finding…

  • Be a rainbow

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    We all have had too many cloudy days recently. I have always loved this quote from Maya Angelou, and I am going to take Maya’s advice and be a rainbow today. “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud,” Maya Angelou once said. –Joy

  • Chaos or community?

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    “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” Martin Luther King once said. “Is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?” Valarie Kaur, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, once said. I pick community and the light of new life—not chaos and darkness. I read both of these quotes…

  • Peace in a world of uncertainty

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    This is the wonder of the season, author Kate Bowler writes. “We were living lives turned inward, and the God shows up and invites us into something more. Peace in a world of uncertainty. Joy that breaks forth. Love that prepares the way. And hope that waits.”

  • The ideal

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    We have to have ideals. We have to believe that we can do better. “It’s useful to have a North Star and the belief in the possibility that we can still deliver on an ideal like all men are created equal, or all people are created equal,” says President Obama in an interview for his…

  • Hope and confidence

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    Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement,” Hellen Keller once said. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” We watched a PBS special about Helen Keller last week—and learned that she was brilliant and she accomplished so much. But, she was not perfect. She was complicated. She was a most interesting person. –Joy

  • Hope is necessary

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    Jane Goodall says that hope is necessary for the survival of humanity. “If you don’t hope that your actions can make a difference, then you sink into apathy,” she stresses. Goodall is featured on the cover of the October 11/October 18 issue of Time magazine. Inside is an article about her new book The Book…

  • Four reasons for hope

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    Jane Goodall lists four reasons she has hope—“the amazing human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power of young people and the indomitable human spirit.” Goodall is featured on the cover of the October 11/October 18 issue of Time magazine. Inside is an article about her new book The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide…

  • Don’t worry

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    My friend says that we should live for today—and not worry too much about tomorrow. Live in the moment. As Charles Schulz said, “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” –Joy

  • Jane Goodall remains hopeful

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    Yes, we need to know all the gloom and doom about climate change, Jane Goodall said in a July 30, 2021, Time magazine article. “But traveling the world I see animal and plant species being rescued from the brink of extinction, people tackling what seemed impossible.” Those stories need to be told, too, Goodall says,…