Choosing to believe....................

I hate that you can't prove the beliefs of my faith.  If I were God, I'd have the answers at the end of the workbook, so you could check as you went along, to see if you're on the right track.  But nooooooo.  Darkness is our context, and Easter's context:  without it you couldn't see the light.  Hope is not about proving anything.  It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

-Anne Lamott,  Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith