Hope

by Victoria Safford

Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope —

not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower;

nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense;

nor the strident gates of self-righteousness,

which creak on shrill and angry hinges;

nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of “Everything is gonna be all right,”

but a very different,

sometimes very lonely place,

the place of truth-telling,

about your own soul first of all and its condition,

the place of resistance and defiance,

the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be,

as it might be,

as it will be;

the place from which you glimpse not only struggle, but joy in the struggle

— and we stand there, beckoning and calling, telling people what we are seeing,

asking people what they see.

#activehope

“Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to nuclear war, none is so great as the deadening of our response.” (Joanna Macy)

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https://www.joannamacy.net/

Reposting: Hope is a choice, an act of courage, and a commitment to creating change. In the first post of the blog series “Hope is a Moral Obligation,” I explore hope as more than just an emotional comfort.

Read more here: https://roqueneto.com/2025/01/28/hope-is-more-than-a-feeling/

#Hope #MentalHealth #CounselingStudent #ActiveHope #TherapistsInTraining #hoffnung #diehoffnung

Hope is a choice, an act of courage, and a commitment to creating change. In the first post of the blog series “Hope is a Moral Obligation,” I explore hope as more than just an emotional comfort.

Read more here: https://roqueneto.com/2025/01/28/hope-is-more-than-a-feeling/

#Hope #MentalHealth #CounselingStudent #ActiveHope #TherapistsInTraining #BlogSeries