The Future is With the Young.

Thanks to Kathryn, an Anglican priest from Gloucestershire, UK, who provides an optimistic end of the week statement from the youth at her parish when she asked them to complete the statement, I dream of...

• a world where 2 and 2 equals 4 for everyone, not 7 for the rich people and 1 for the poor
• a world where the young share their creativity, the old share their wisdom, the poor share their hope, the rich share their wealth, the clever share their perceptiveness,the foolish share their contentedness
• a world where we recognize and set aside our prejudices instead of making them the unconscious basis of our judgments
• a world where people think not "If I help that person, what will happen to me?" but "If I don't help that person, what will happen to them?"
• a world where people smile and greet their neighbours, rather than passing by with heads down or eyes averted
• a world whose people live and believe in forgiveness
• a world where the staircase to heaven has a rope from God, a harness from the Church and a handrail from the people of the nations

If that doesn't provide hope for the future, what will?