Francis by Patrick J. Marrin for May 11, 2023

Amen. Inshallah, she will continue to give hope. It can be in short supply now.

Had to get worse before it got better. I have great hope for the world.

Hope is all around us in humanity, but you must look for it.

You won’t find it on cable news. I am not saying ignore the news, but leave space in your mind and your heart for the human beings you meet every day.

Science tells us that life will fight for survival and win under the harshest conditions: in pools of scalding water, under the permafrost of the tundra, in water so acidic as to make battery acid look tame by comparison and in smoldering thermal vents in total darkness and under incomprehensible pressure at the bottom of the ocean.

Like life, hope fights back. It may be extinguished temporarily, but it does not stay defeated. It comes back. Like the light of a flame that is transferred from candle to candle it leaps from one person to another.

I’ve seen hope in the most unlikely places: in homeless people, broken people, people with tragedy in their lives. When they come together, hope exists.

I’ve had the experience of solitary confinement when I was isolated from time and space. In that darkness I came to the realization that all we have is ourselves and each other. Nothing else matters.

May is the month of Mary

Well done!

The Holy Ghost and Mary represents the female side of God..