Hope

 Something from a letter I received today.   A few sentences from Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical;

.“Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts Him even at times of darkness.  Faith . . . gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true:  God is love!  It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in His hands, and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness He ultimately triumphs in glory.”

That very much spoke to the heart this cloudy afternoon.