Finding Hope in Hard Times

June 23, 2019 Service

Rev. Barbara Davenport

Many of us are discouraged about personal concerns, health issues, or national and world events. Can we find room for hope? What are the stories of hope? When I think of the meaning of hope at least two sources come to mind. One includes lines from a poem by Emily Dickinson likening hope to a bird. The second from Vaclav Havel, who proposes that hope, rather than a prognostication, is an “orientation of the spirit” and of the heart.