High Holy

It's Holy Week and also Passover: two religious celebrations that call us to recognize the promise of light, life, and hope after darkness. You could say our world is in turmoil. The potential for trouble is everywhere and there is cause to be deflated, resigned to bad times, pessimism and depression. Some say that in the continual struggle between good and evil, evil seems to be winning. These holy holidays and spring itself should cause us to realize that change is inevitable. History has demonstrated over and over again that, in the course of human events, change comes. Sometimes, a reckoning. Progress is possible even inevitable when we are able to assure that our individual portion of the universe is engaged and contributing our part as we should. Sometimes, when the world is a ball...