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

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

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.