Diana

“an honest hope, which perhaps saves us from two unholy polarities—the empty positivity and blind optimism that masquerade as hope (yet are never honest about the realities of pain and death), or the surrender to despair and hopelessness. Honest hope is birthed in the realness in between the messy headlines of today’s news. It invites us to consider every situation, no matter how despairing, as something we don’t have to walk through alone, but as the very birthplace for divine participation.”
― Scott Erickson, Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

“You can’t see the future coming—not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“Ecopsychologists have shown that the practice of gratitude puts brakes on hyperconsumption. The relationships nurtured by gift thinking diminish our sense of scarcity and want. In that climate of sufficiency, our hunger for more abates and we take only what we need, in respect for the generosity of the giver.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.”
― Annie Dillard, The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New