Episode 1
Horizons of Hope
In this episode, Prof. H. Jay Dunmore and Father Tim Brown share insight and inspiration for the community as we enter a new chapter with new horizons in this fall season.
Transcript
Hello, Im H. Jay Dunmore
Speaker:Im here with Father Timothy
Speaker:today we're having a discussion where we're
Speaker:talking about in this podcast the process of finding god in
Speaker:all things in identifying areas in our life we can see
Speaker:the design of the divine in different areas
Speaker:how god is active in our life
Speaker:on a daily basis
Speaker:recently we were talking about the community and how there are
Speaker:a lot of things are taking place that
Speaker:are consistent with change
Speaker:positive change. C hange that we
Speaker:of
Speaker:of great optimism of the things that are to come
Speaker:and I have a great optimism as well for
Speaker:the loyal community
Speaker:there are a lot of great things that are taking place and a lot
Speaker:of things and I'm very optimistic about
Speaker:as it relates to Loyola but also the same time I'm also
Speaker:optimistic for
Speaker:the future as far as for us as a community as a as a nation
Speaker:just different things that we see that are happening and when
Speaker:taking a look at these things individually we understand
Speaker:collectively
Speaker:it gives us that confirmation
Speaker:as far as hopes concerning being able to
Speaker:seek out some of the things in
Speaker:with a positive outlook on because they're great things
Speaker:that are taking place
Speaker:and the title for this podcast
Speaker:horizons of hope so let's talk a bit about horizons of hope
Speaker:and
Speaker:examples and things we can kind of talk about to
Speaker:hopefully inspire hope and others that a listing as well
Speaker:I love the
Speaker:notion of a horizon
Speaker:and the way in which a horizon can either be something that's
Speaker:limited or all encompassing
Speaker:and I think that's what the meaning of hope is if you're
Speaker:in your point of view
Speaker:there is no hope
Speaker:well when you go beyond
Speaker:the horizon to that which is not
Speaker:or that which cannot be seen you have hope
Speaker:and I think it's all about where when and how
Speaker:why and who
Speaker:we look for that hope in a joint on me one of the great
Speaker:images for me of hope
Speaker:is the young poet laureate Amanda Gorman right after
Speaker:the tragedy in Texas you Waldie
Speaker:the way in which she
Speaker:was able to take that tragedy
Speaker:and bring some hope
Speaker:into that moment
Speaker:and she entitled upon him
Speaker:for the hurting
Speaker:everything hurts
Speaker:our hearts shadowed in strange minds made muddied in mute
Speaker:we carry tragedy terrifying in true
Speaker:yet none of it is new we knew it is home has horror as
Speaker:heritage even our children
Speaker:cannot be children
Speaker:cannot be everything hurts
Speaker:it's a hard time to be alive
Speaker:and even harder to stay that way
Speaker:were burned to live out these days while the same time blast
Speaker:to outlive them
Speaker:this alarm is how we know we must be altered
Speaker:that we must differ or diet that we must triumph or try
Speaker:this wall he cannot be terminated it can be
Speaker:transformed into a love
Speaker:that lets us live
Speaker:maybe not just grief
Speaker:give
Speaker:me we not just a week
Speaker:but act
Speaker:we are signed right to bear arms never been blind our site
Speaker:from shared harm
Speaker:maybe choose our children over chaos
Speaker:in another innocent never be lost
Speaker:maybe everything hurts
Speaker:hearts shadowed in strange
Speaker:but only when everything hurts
Speaker:may everything change
Speaker:so hope is an activity it's a practice
Speaker:it's a way in which our horizons
Speaker:get stretched
Speaker:it's a way in which when we move beyond the horizon
Speaker:to that which we do not know or absorb
Speaker:our view point shift
Speaker:and so we have the possibility of
Speaker:shifting
Speaker:from a world filled with guns
Speaker:tool world filled with a different kind of
Speaker:response
Speaker:to fear
Speaker:I think so much of the parables of Jesus is really parables
Speaker:of hope %HESITATION parables of
Speaker:teaching us
Speaker:how the reign of god could be different
Speaker:in twenty twenty two
Speaker:then using grainy images from
Speaker:from nature
Speaker:in just realistic images
Speaker:hello nature teaches us
Speaker:the meaning of hope
Speaker:the farmer plants
Speaker:the seed falls
Speaker:the farmer weights from night to day
Speaker:the stock grows from year to grain but now the time is right
Speaker:and now the circle is ready
Speaker:how is the kingdom of god like that
Speaker:we change our perspective our horizon
Speaker:to the parables of Jesus to the reign of god is like
Speaker:dot dot dot
Speaker:we begin
Speaker:a new chapter in Hopen trust
Speaker:the kingdom of god is mustard
Speaker:the seeds small enough to get lost among others
Speaker:a plant large enough to shelter birds in its initiate
Speaker:I
Speaker:hope
Speaker:the ice of Christ
Speaker:is something
Speaker:most essential
Speaker:Tasha ring in the reign of god
Speaker:at this time in our history
Speaker:it's a discipline
Speaker:it's an approach
Speaker:it's a way of life
Speaker:to become a parable
Speaker:not to just read or pray a parable put actually
Speaker:to reenact
Speaker:airborne a new way
Speaker:in B. com
Speaker:that whole
Speaker:at the world
Speaker:is waiting for
Speaker:the understanding of
Speaker:the horizons of hope
Speaker:changing the horizon
Speaker:a new chapter New Horizons
Speaker:and going from that place from bud to blossom
Speaker:but hope hope is a focus
Speaker:and that hope
Speaker:forgetting about the old impressing towards the new
Speaker:requires a sometimes revisiting and thinking about some of
Speaker:the things where there was hope and
Speaker:is that thinking about hope
Speaker:and not necessarily reaching test which had desired in
Speaker:the mind
Speaker:but revisiting it with an optimism
Speaker:you don't run out of hope
Speaker:in the similar to that to grace is well
Speaker:and I think about the %HESITATION Isaiah chapter
Speaker:forty in thirty one about those who hope in the lord and how
Speaker:they were new the straps
Speaker:and soaring on wings like eagles
Speaker:they don't grow weary
Speaker:and they walk and don't become faint
Speaker:and that's where
Speaker:having these horizons of hope
Speaker:allow you to raise two different horizons different
Speaker:levels and being able to soar on wings like eagles
Speaker:and the ability to
Speaker:the new strength survey suggests that process again of
Speaker:changing that horizon that new chapter
Speaker:in the process of unlearning some of the things that perhaps
Speaker:may have hindered hope in times past
Speaker:and then when thinking about
Speaker:the Amanda Gorman poem
Speaker:hope for the hurting
Speaker:the idea of transitioning
Speaker:and transferring hate to love
Speaker:about the first Corinthians about faith hope and love but
Speaker:the greatest of these is love
Speaker:and being able to operate in the area of love that is most
Speaker:important of all
Speaker:that we can begin to look at this new horizon this new
Speaker:chapter this new season with a new lands it's a new
Speaker:territory N. sometimes you know we do have fear and we have
Speaker:doubt because we're stepping two things new with optimism
Speaker:and sometimes the mind
Speaker:can begin to battle with the hope
Speaker:the wondering if the when the how and
Speaker:you know all those things that
Speaker:come up as questions
Speaker:and sometimes when we step into the area of hope
Speaker:and we understand that
Speaker:just as we have hope
Speaker:there are others that hope is rising in them as well
Speaker:and that's a part of that collective community of people
Speaker:when working together are able to rise to creating new levels
Speaker:beyond what we could possibly imagine
Speaker:what's most important is again operating in that love
Speaker:so I think
Speaker:the takeaway today is how do we become
Speaker:practitioners of hope
Speaker:how do we see beyond the horizon
Speaker:so to be a practitioner of hope is to be with someone who is
Speaker:pointing to innovation
Speaker:and new ways of being
Speaker:%HESITATION books right now there were three in one book
Speaker:that I really think everyone should be reading as Anthony
Speaker:doors book
Speaker:cloud cuckoo land in
Speaker:abbey take me twenty minutes to explain the plot
Speaker:basically
Speaker:it's a story about
Speaker:the planet coming back
Speaker:from the perspective of children from various
Speaker:generations
Speaker:in history
Speaker:from sixteenth century Constantinople to twenty first
Speaker:century space ships
Speaker:to a library in Idaho
Speaker:and everything in between
Speaker:but it's really a story about children and imagination and
Speaker:new ways of living on this planet and even beyond
Speaker:the planet
Speaker:is a mention before
Speaker:king up
Speaker:a good CD
Speaker:anything by John Batiste is worth listening to
Speaker:%HESITATION sometime we may play the music to let god lead
Speaker:which is in the vein of Amanda Gorman
Speaker:with a line like we begin to succeed when the cares of our
Speaker:lives begin and end
Speaker:with a herd of others
Speaker:isn't that how she and her poem
Speaker:we begin to breathe when the wounds of others become
Speaker:relieved with the love of others
Speaker:you see a different practitioner practitioner not
Speaker:only of hope
Speaker:but of love
Speaker:he looks around to find who's in need has made the best
Speaker:investment
Speaker:as human being
Speaker:in our whole culture in Loyola
Speaker:a service
Speaker:being attention to those
Speaker:were marginalized
Speaker:you know that he looks around to find who's in need has made
Speaker:the best investment in a legacy
Speaker:I say
Speaker:the level never force
Speaker:level never quit
Speaker:let me never lose Levin never miss
Speaker:so let's hope
Speaker:let's practice
Speaker:let's stretch
Speaker:let's go beyond our horizons
Speaker:to new way of being
Speaker:and in this horizon of hope in this season that were working
Speaker:in
Speaker:it's about having hope
Speaker:having that face
Speaker:an operating loss but just letting god and leading Love Me
Speaker:the way
Speaker:we thank you for listening to the podcasts
