Outrageous Hope

Most of you could — and many probably do — make a similar toast each Dec. 31, raise a glass and make a wish that would close your organization’s doors and maybe put you out of a job, pray for viable and permanent solutions to the problems you’re working to solve.

But years pass and wars rage, children and animals suffer, disease
persists. Floods take out entire regions. People continue to be cruel to one another and to our mother, Earth. Faith remains strained. Even if one problem gets solved, another manifests itself somewhere else.