The Impossible Will Take a While...

A friend of mine reminded me today of this great book, which I won't get to THIS advent. But, wow, check out the website at http://www.paulloeb.org/newimp/impindex.htm. Here's a little teaser:

From Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen, comes a collection of fifty moving essays from Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Jim Hightower, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushner, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Cornel West and others who explore the path of community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope, inspiring us all to work for a better world.

My friend's church is using it in an adult ed discussion group, and says it's working beautifully. No wonder it resonates; we need not only hope but reminders of what hope is and is NOT. It looks like these essays flesh out a hope that is about vision and staying power, resilience and communal habits of anticipation-in-action. Watch for details in the winter; it may turn up in a LWM series in Easter season...