The hope that things can be better, should be better, is a subversive hope. It defies the odds to believe that a system too heavily favoring those already in power might ever change to truly support and care for the marginalized. This is the work of faith. It forces us to remain unsettled when the praying is done. It makes us face the suffering we might want to turn away from. It drives us to keep trying to make things different. Perhaps we cannot fix everything. But we can change some things—and that is worth doing.
