To some, this way of seeing may seem naively optimistic. But Niebuhr was no Pollyanna. He knew about the Holocaust and all the terrible things that we are capable of doing to each other. The point is not that reality is simply “nice,” or that one can demonstrate that it is gracious. Rather, the point is that how we see reality matters, for how we see “what is” profoundly affects how we experience and live our lives.
