Spiritual Themes>Hope|Quest Article

Hope is tightly woven into Unitarian Universalism. The doctrine of universal salvation was referred to as “The Larger Hope.”

For the longest time I found myself living life in despair. I felt that I had little to live for, and had not only contemplated, but also attempted, suicide several times between the ages of 14 and 26.

Being in prison is like being dead. Nothing matters. People fall out of your life; the world passes you by and forgets about you.

How can we find hope in circumstances such as these we live in today? Would it help to ask what it is we are even looking for? 

I believe that the CLF mission statement is a recipe for hope: We seek to cultivate wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.

In what is surely the most famous English-language description of hope,  Emily Dickinson declares that…

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Outside my window, past the razor wire and fence, lies a ridge. A quartet of blue jays and a woodpecker live in the scrub oaks on the left.

Enormous thanks to the following congregations and organizations, which generously contributed to the CLF between April and August 2018. We are so grateful!  

Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders were rather demoralized that spring of 1963. They had started a campaign to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama and it wasn’t going well.