What gives you hope in this day and age? Seriously read the news or listen to it?

Question

This is a seriously messed up world we live in regardless of your faith or stance on faith. What do you cling to, what gives you hope for the future?

Answer 1

"What gives you hope in this day and age?" - People that take the load on their shoulder and help others.
"Seriously read the news or listen to it?" - NO! For over 3 years I have stopped watching TV and radio news, and I am happier and less stressed.
If you need news watch Jon Stewart and the Daily show, best news source on TV. More accurate.
Also watch as many comedians as you can - Dave Chappelle and others offer insight into the USA - and you can laugh, which improves the health.
For YOU to say: "This is a seriously messed up world we live in regardless of your faith or stance on faith." - shocks me - because YOU and Pangel, and FatherK and others fight the stupidity one question at a time. You have been in R&S for long enough to know people look to you three, and others, to get through their day. You may be unhappy - but you can't freak out others by saying the truth, you have to keep positive no matter the reality.
Also the world is fine, many communities are far from any of the modern decay everyone talks about. Decay is a cyclic mentality of how the morale of a community feels. The young rarely notice because they are young and the old only remember the past, as so much better - so the truth is the middle - good days and bad days of a community.
"What do you cling to, what gives you hope for the future?" - The young and the progress made in equality for everyone.
Yes it is slow, baby steps - actually one millimeter forward which infuriates many because we will die before we see logical advances, insert a cause here. (Cures of diseases and social equalities.)
Debra people like you, (Pangel, FatherK, many others) take the troubles and make sense for others. Please do not tell the sheep there are wolves in the pen! (I hate being a sheep, but that's the image we are stuck with.) You'll scare everyone and crash the web! Then I won't be able to check Yahoo comics, or come here.
If you knew how many people are glad your back in R&S, you'd remember that the world is fine. The wolves are not in control, we sheep are.
If we could have 365 good days in a row we'd be in paradise again - for a year. LOL - we'd still complain about the weather - humans love to complain - remember.
PLEASE BE AT PEACE. (sorry to yell.) be at peace.

Answer 2

Each new day brings new hope for a better future and a brand new beginning.

Stop watching the news, it is filled with the worse of the worst because that's what sells. And if there isn't anything really bad that day they will twist something around so it seems that way.

There are bad things going on in the world, but there are also a lot of good happening as well but you won't hear about that on the 6 o'clock news or read it in the headlines of the daily paper.

Look around you, talk to people, get your news from the net and as many different sources from different parts of the world as you can.

Most of all try being the change you would like to see in the world.

Every journey begins with just one small step, take it and don't become paralysed by all the negativity you see around you.

Answer 3

You definitely have addressed the reality of our current situation! If I were to consider the possibilities for our future, I would not be optimistic since I am truly afraid that the terrorists who hate us Americans so violently and have no respect for life, including their own, will always be contemplating and planning to attack us again and to destroy the United States utterly if that is within their capabilities. We have never lived in such dangerous times when renegade nations are developing nuclear weapons and exhibit no compunction against employing them. And yet, for reasons which I can not entirely understand (perhaps my basic upbeat nature), I remain essentially a happy person (and not through any religious faith) and am hopeful that we (humanity) may find the way to live in peace upon the Earth before destroying it. It may be that a planet capable of supporting intelligent life is very rare within the universe, and we should be able to comprehend that to annihilate our beautiful world would be a crime of cosmic proportions. Thus, I am somehow trusting that intellect will ultimately prevail over ignorance.

Answer 4

I read the last chapter of the book, and the Kingdom of god comes out on top.

I place no hope in 'the world' or what it will become - it may get much worse before it gets better, or better vbefore it gets worse.

But I am certain that the Kingdom of God is already at hand, working in my life and in other's lives for the good. God has this great skikll at taking the awful things people do to each other and somehow making something good out of it.

I do not watch the local news because it is almost 100% fires, car wrecks, murders...you get the idea.

Prayer, humility, acceptance of the "what is" state of the world. Seeking contentment rather than stuff. Learning to "be" rather than to "do." These help me a lot.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I guess I really do love the Deity. I know I say a lot of really crazy things because I truly detest dogma and the rejection of knowledge, but I do feel the connectedness with what I consider the Divine. I have taken to calling myself an agnostic theist because, although I have never doubted the existence of a God, I also know that there is no scientific proof to support that belief and that I could turn out to be wrong. But I think that sense of connectedness - the sense that we are all a part of something greater - is what gives me hope.

Nice question, btw.

Answer 6

I know that Jesus Christ is alive, because over 36 years ago He made Himself real to me in a way I didn't know was possible. He revealed Himself to me as the one who died for my sins and was raised again from the dead. He changed my heart in an instant, causing me to be born again, taking the hate and darkness and deceit out of my heart.
It was not until a year later that I started reading the Bible, and I realized what happened to me was in the Bible all along. That was how I knew it was the true word of God, and I have been believing it ever since. You are right about the state of the world, and it is in fact much more dire than most people realize. Nevertheless God has provided men with a spiritual "Ark", which is able to carry them safely through the things that are coming upon the earth, and that Ark is the grace He promises to all who put their faith in His appointed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
No one who puts their trust in Him will be disappointed.

Answer 7

My belief in God and His Son Jesus. Everytime I have been in a really good place in my life it has been at a time that I have been Christ based. About 2 years ago I started reading the Bible as a novel. I figured there had to be something there because every person that lives like I would like to believes in Jesus. As I read the Bible I am learning more about me, God and Jesus. There is no reason not to hope because Jesus gave us hope. I know this won't get best answer since those usually go to the ones who argue against Christanity. But I am what I am!

Answer 8

I am concerned with what has happened to our country in the U.S., but it does not effect me personally.

I have spent years preaching and teaching in homeless shelters and in the prison system. I enjoy helping those whose lives have gone the wrong way and enjoy showing them how they can live an enriching and fulfilling life.

It is my faith in God and in His Son Jesus the Christ that keeps me content in the midst of turmoil.
I experience love for the unlovable.
I experience joy when their is nothing to rejoice over.
I experience peace when the world is in at war.
I experience patience when everyone is impatient.
I experience kindness when the world mocks kindness.
I experience goodness when the world is engaged in evil.
I experience faithfulness when the world shuns commitment.
I experience gentleness when the world calls it weakness.
I experience self-control when the world is out of control.
I experience these things because I am led by the Spirit of God.

Unlike on this forum, these people are not skeptical because they have tried everything else and nothing has worked. They are ready to try anything that has shown success.

grace2u

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Actually, I don't have hope for the future in the short and medium term. I frankly think the world is headed for a new dark ages.

I think that civilizations run in cycles and since we have just about a global civilization, the next dark ages will be world-wide.

In the long term civilization will rebuild itself. That's where I have hope, that the cycle will move to a new phase eventually.

I know you are looking for a spiritual answer, I have only this to add on that score--I believe in a god who created this universe and that there is a plan for it. I don't believe he/she/it intervenes in the day to day events of each being's existence, but that on the whole their existence is part of the plan; as is the development and growth and declines of civilizations as well. So, despite the glum near term view I have, life will go on as it is planned and that gives me comfort.