Our struggles in life are golden opportunities. We look around and we see strife, and it is an opportunity for us to eliminate the causes of strife. We look around and we see homelessness and these are nothing but chances for us to practice as the Buddha did and work to end homelessness. When we see these things and we give up hope, then we see our world as a dreary dark place, a place of great fires. However, turning towards these things and not away allows us to see many ways in which we who practice the Lotus Sutra, we who have hope, can bring hope and joy to those who have no hope.