In The World, With Hope

Happy Good Friday everyone. Hope you’re enjoying the Easter Weekend. It feels good to be celebrating the second Easter after the covid debacle. It’s been a roller-coaster with changes in leadership all over the world, the release of the WhatsApp message detailing the massive discrepancy between the fear-fest the populace was subjected to and the reality of the actual scientific facts, and of course the royal family shenanigans. If you haven’t read the cabinet WhatsApp messages, you should. They are a doozy but beware, you might need anger management sessions afterwards.

Unstable banks, unstable governments, unstable heads of state. The net effect on the human race? Anxiety. If you work in close contact with lots of people or are in a customer-facing role, you know what I’m talking about. Throw in the cost of living crisis, and the fact that most of us go about our business with a smile on our faces (mostly!) says a lot about the resilience of the human spirit. Contemplating all this on Good Friday with its message of the possibility of redemption and the virtues of self-sacrifice led me to wondering about the ways in which we all try to cope.

I have been a practising Christian as far back as I can remember and have believed that I have God’s protection all my life. I do get anxious and I do worry, and like everyone else, I don’t know what the future holds. However, I also always have the thought that there is somewhere to go for help, and that there is a bright and certain hope for the future, both now and after death. There is more, and there is a purpose for my life. It is impossible to imagine what life feels like to be in the world, without hope.

My atheist/agnostic friends tell me that is all pie-in-the-sky, and maybe they are right, and maybe they are wrong. But my faith sustains me, and having survived earthquake, flood and fire, I know in whom I have believed and God has never let me down. Hence this love letter to Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away all the sins of the World. So, wherever you are today, believer or not, I pray that you can hold fast to what is true and that no matter how dire your circumstances, be able to always look towards the Light. I leave you with a super-bouncy rendition of My Lighthouse. Have a good one.