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At the Texas Impact Leadership Council’s monthly meeting, members of the council reflected on the work they have been doing this year around the theme of “prophetic imagination,” and offered examples of instances this year when they have observed hopeful shoots coming up from imaginative roots. Importantly, the members identified local events and initiatives involving in-person interaction, not broad policy changes.
In her book The Beginning Comes After the End, author Rebecca Solnit argues that local stories of hope are not just proof that something good happened to someone somewhere, but that because we are all “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny” the hopeful news from over there is hopeful for you, too.
Which is not to say that all the news is hopeful or that the future is rosy. It’s just to say, in a political moment when many Americans have grave concerns for our prospects in human community, don’t lose heart, don’t lose your nerve, and don’t lose your voice.
As our friend Dan De Leon says, “your voice is powerful. If it weren’t, they wouldn’t be doing everything in their power to suppress it.” |
