To wish to see or imagine the future is to make a fiction out of hope, and this seems to me to be doing violence to hope…. Obviously, since we do not have God’s imagination, when we think of the future, we think of it in terms of the past…. When we are in a tunnel, we see nothing, but it is absurd to want the landscape when we come out to be the same as when we went in…. Let us let the Holy Spirit do its work…. It is the Spirit’s business; this is what I call poverty.
CHRISTIAN DE CHERGÉ Retreat for March 8, 1996
