Can’t agree with the authors last paragraph. Overlooking the murder of the unborn child for the sake of so called social justice does not IMHO constitute love. Sorry know you didn’t want to go there but couldn’t help it
That’s OK.
There there is this deeper meaning of hope — to me almost a mystical hope.
**hope as “the affirmation that there exists, beyond all data, all inventories, and all calculations, a mysterious principle [principium, source, origin, not abstract statement or formula] that is in connivance with me, that cannot but will that which I will if what I will deserves to be willed and is in fact willed with the whole of my being”.**
But we will both agree that God is the person in control and not us, I think.
**And if you start with faith, hope prods you into love, for if you believe what the Church teaches about human destiny, your love for God must become also love for his image in your neighbor, who is destined to share divine life.**
I came back to re-read this. Without the children (with abortion on rampage in the U. S.) we are losing population and will soon become a third-world country. That’s not hope at all. Thanks for the little nudge there!