Beauty of Hope: Travis McCool

[Beautiful Future - XVI]

As one tragedy gives way to the next and every new week seems pregnant with the anticipation of continued discontent and division, I hold on to the beauty of hope.

Beauty and life always come from destruction and death. As one song reminded me from the 90's, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end". In that, I find hope.

I see beauty in the upheaval of the now . . . the burning away of false saviors and fake gods we have mistakenly placed in sacred spaces.

I see beauty in the real.
Beauty in the simple.
Beauty in the call to be what we are meant to be and not what we have become.

I relish the hope that a life can be made right.

The beauty I see is just over the horizon . . . coming on the clouds of a new day, a day promised to us long ago.

[Travis is a pastor and visionary. Find him on Facebook advocating for genuine dialogue and fighting against hate. If I could invite only one friend to a bonfire, he’d likely be my first choice.]