For hope. Aside from faith and love, the most amazing feeling there is. Faith is reassuring, love is comforting, but hope, hope is daring. These are tough and trying times we live in. I don’t ever, ever want to lose hope.
Go ahead, dare to hope!
What are you thankful for today?
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
– Thomas Merton
“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks Connie, I truly needed this today.
And so we continue the walk, always looking ahead and never losing hope, for as the old Proverb goes “This too, shall pass.” Thank you Connie, and Happy Thursday to you! JG
OMG, your inspirational message is just what we all needed today…..and every day going forward. Just remember, today IS the first day of the rest of your life…and it is always filled with hope! Thanks again, Connie. Boop
Oh, amiga, this post was much needed. I am getting that Ralph Waldo Emerson poem framed. I am thankful for hope. And faith.