Despite Voltaire's Candide's clever parody of Gottfried Leibniz's contention that this world--the one we are living in now--is the "best of all possible worlds," if we look at Leibniz's observation from another angle, we may come to think that perhaps the old German philosopher was not too far off after all.  To wit, if this world is really not the best of all possible worlds, how would we know it?  We can only draw comparisons about something if we have something to compare it to--and we do not.  Also, if we say that this world is not the best of all possible worlds (how could a planet with so many problems possibly be the best one possible?), we must know how to imagine a better one--and we can only imagine a better one if we are already alive and well on this one.
     We need to be somewhere, albeit anywhere, to be possible and entertain possibility.  And we cannot be anywhere unless we are somewhere.
     Sure, it's a problemmatic and troubling world.  But consider this:  if this world was not here, we would not be here, either.  Isn't it better to live with the possibility of possibility than to never be possible at all?
     After all, it is the possible that makes us possible.  As God tells the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 43:19), "Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth":  it is in possibility that we see most clearly the fact of newness, that is, God's steady and constant newness, the newness without which the possible would not even be possible.
     Always, today and forevermore, look for the possibility in God.