"What am I optimistic about?"

I am optimistic about the reality of grace. Grace that gently grows hope in
the midst of our hopelessness. Grace is bigger than our religions, our
cultures of faith, our services and our sermons. For me, grace was only
fully understood when the spotlight was out and my hope had gone. To find
myself having grown from that place, full of wonderment and amazement, is my
constant source of inspiration. Yes, the lights do go out. Yes, there are
struggles and times where I loose all sense of hope, but, somehow, there is
an awareness of grace that goes beyond me and my situations and I find
myself held by faithfulness, a faithfulness that graces me, a grace that is
faithful.