Hope Is A Choice

I love hearing/seeing Rev. Jim Wallis - one of the other Christians - speak. Here he gives the commencement address to graduates at John Carroll University - a Jesuit institution. Among other things he stressed that "hope is a choice - a decision - you make because of faith." Amen to that.

"Rev. Jim Wallis (below, left), founder of Sojourners magazine and Christian community, addressed the Class of 2005 at Commencement exercises today (May 22) at John Carroll. 'Faith is for changing the big things,' Wallis said. 'Things that nobody thinks can be changed. Things that others say are hopeless, where the odds are against us. That is indeed the time for faith. I want to ask our graduates today a special question: What is the big thing you're going to do?'"

Take a listen for yourself.