Hope is a mental-spiritual must-have--we cannot move forward without it. But how do we sustain it when faced with situations we cannot see solutions to? We know a great many coping methods that don't work very well, playing out more like denial than hope. So what does work, authentically, reliably?
Author Kate Bowler suggests that staying hopeful is like being on a seesaw, drawing lessons from the past, and inspiration from the future, but never tilting too far in either direction lest we lose our balance.