Yet still, the dream remains. In at least a small place in our hearts we still want to believe in it. We hold, however tenuously, to hope in the ancient Promise of a peaceable kingdom. Hope alone, is not enough. What we hope for will not just happen.
Hope achieves little if it is just a passive thing.
He said that the kingdom is at hand, what we hope for is there. However, we have to prepare ourselves for it. It means making a choice to undergo radical transformation and then allowing that transformation to happen. We choose to become what God means for us to be and then we open ourselves to being led to that. That is what we are called to choose and that is what we all can learn to be.