Hope, Faith and holding a Vision - by SC Skillman
Recently I've been thinking about the subject of 'hope against hope', in view of recent events in this world. Conflict is an inevitable part of human life, as writers know only too well. There is no story without conflict: and it does seem that violence is written into the DNA of the human race. We live in a world where many different people hold profoundly different opinions and ideologies, and where we are called upon to find some way of handling our emotions, as we progress through life. And in many cases, that becomes an impossible task; and we see violence breaking out. Jesus himself was only too well aware of this, and conscious of it all around him, in the political situation he broke into. He gave us a vision, of a different way of being: yet he also asked us to equip ourselves in a spiritual battleground. We cannot fail to recognise that this world is a battle between forces of good and evil. In fact, I consider that the current situation of the Russian invasion o...