I write this in relation to the article also on this page – The Hope Easter Gives.
This is so true, if we do not have hope, where do we go, what can we do? We can have a hard day but just to know that we will be with family later or going out for dinner, just gives us the hope to persevere.
Recently, on the news, I was listening to the plea of a barrister for a condemned criminal to have a life sentence changed so his client would be granted parole.
Yet the parole period would still mean that his client would more than likely die in prison anyway. But parole would at least give him hope in something.
We can make a list of all these ‘hopes’ we have but they all share a segment of the life we have on earth. But we need a hope that will carry us beyond this life into the next life – the Ressurection.
I find it difficult to comprehend the thinking of people who have no God. They see life as final with nothing to follow and this would make the death of a love one so much harder to cope with.
When we believe in the promise of Jesus, of a new life, which is the ‘will’ of his Father we are given a peace that our love one is now enjoying an eternal reward.
We may enjoy the hope of a pleasant dinner at th end of the day. We also need the hope that a reward awaits us at the end of our lives.
Fr Michael Morley
