on anger and hope

"can we hold both anger and hope?...

if one doesn't feel outrage at the injustice we see and experience, we have numbed ourselves to levels of evil, detached ourselves from our connectedness. but if we don't experience the realty of hope as well, a vision of what can be, we have no compass. anger cannot be our only motivator. we will only burn. and hope, without the truth that anger unveils, can lead to a contorted, Pollyanna response to the human experience. they seem to be like two tracks for the train--we can proceed when hope and anger are real."


--mair honan, "being homeless, seeking god," the progressive christian