We Are Called to be Stewards of the Future – A Future That is Full of Hope
March 3, 2009 by O'Meara Ferguson
Filed under Daniel Conway, Spirituality of Stewardship
From Dan Conway’s The Good Steward, August 2008
We have hope for the future because the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ makes things happen and is life-changing. Through Him, the dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. We have been saved in hope.
- Pope Benedict XVI
“As Pope Benedict teaches, we can survive an “arduous present” if we have worthwhile goals, if we have hope. And miracles actually happen when we place faith before pragmatism and confident hope before a fatalistic sense of resignation that leads only to despair.
This is not blind optimism or a naive form of self-delusion. It is Christian realism. Our faith in Christ’s resurrection — his ultimate victory over sin and death and our firm belief in His coming again in glory at the end of time — have convinced us that our actions in the present can impact the future …”
