welcome December 15, 2003 Issue

Star light, star bright

Bettie Gray

Hope , like faith, is a step. Sometimes a big one. If you've ever had to walk in darkness, you know this. One tentative inch forward after another, you feel your way through toward safety. Hopelessness stands still or sits down and gives up. But hope moves on. It tends toward something stronger, more solid. In going ahead, we're helped by knowing there's a path. Helped even more by knowing there's only one direction.

Some people who've ventured through darkness have followed the voice or hand of a friend, someone farther up the path, who can reassure them of firm footing ahead or light to come.

In this issue, a writer tells of her journey out of mental darkness, encouraged along by a friend until she herself found "pinpricks of light"—signs of God's presence—to lead her forward. Another writer recounts a very old story of a man who needed a friend to point the way out of hopelessness, as well as a more recent account of a man who likened himself to a mariner who followed "the North Star" out of a sea of despair.

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