Good Catastrophe

“Hope is crucial for human flourishing but is a subject rarely addressed in business until the pandemic made it unavoidable. In times of great turbulence, hope can feel naïve — or worse, like a set-up for future disappointment. And yet, hope is essential to our satisfaction, motivation, health, and performance. When things look bleak, remaining hopeful is one of our toughest and most essential self-management tasks. It’s tough because it requires a delicate balance of accepting that we cannot know the future, while believing things will be better than the present. It’s essential because when hope is lost, so, too, is our will to endure and ultimately prevail.” Harvard Business Review, ‘Sustaining Hope in Uncertain Times” by Dane Jensen, March 15, 2022.

This is why Pastor Windle’s book is so important. Lack of hope is being felt everywhere, but the answer does not come from a world view of hope. It comes from an eternal hope. In human hands, things will always deteriorate. God promises something greater. He can sustain and grow you in the bad times (while you are here) and then deliver you into an eternity of beauty, purpose, no tears and sickness, with everlasting peace.