Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.