Hold fast to dreams

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
 life is a broken winged bird 
that cannot fly.
---Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes knew something that maybe the Apostle Paul did not. Forgive me if I overstate; maybe it was that Paul was off making a different point entirely. Paul ended his famous treatise on love with the bold statement "And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love" (I Cor. 13:13). The Beatles were known to have crooned 'All you need is love (ba-ba-ba-da-da)'. Maybe they got the idea from Virgil, who said 'Omnia Vincit Amor (Love Conquers All)'.
But Langston Hughes, he was on to something. When your hope runs out, when your dreams die, nothing else seems to count for much. Without hope, love seems empty desire. Without hope, any endeavor seems controlled by some heartless fate.
But hope. Hope gives wing to what may lie in our futures.
Take heart. Hold fast to hope.


...so here we stand, whoever we are,
bathed in the light of a star...