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Luke Stocking: The hope inside me comes from God Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash Luke Stocking: The hope inside me comes from God By Luke Stocking January 30, 2021
Hope.
Over my 14 years working at Development and Peace – Caritas Canada I have given a countless number of public presentations and workshops on our mission. This has involved sharing story after story of the violence, poverty and injustice of our broken world. Of all the questions people have asked me, there is one that arises again and again: “How do you stay hopeful?”
It is a good question. When my organization began, many thought the problem of global poverty could be solved within a decade or two at the most. While one can point to many positive steps forward that humanity has taken since we began in 1967, we are still a long ways from completing our mission. We are still searching for alternatives to the unjust social and economic systems that impoverish not only indivi