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The Life of Hope

  Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed. Patric Shade   We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.  Patric Shade Explore This Website

A Glimmering Ray

All hope is prayer;  who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over  weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer,  gives wings to hope. Ella Wilcox For hope will cull a withered flower And tune a harp with a broken string; And hope will shed a glimmering ray Of light on pleasure's ruined shrine. For mouldering columns still look gay When summer sunbeams o'er them shine. Rosa V Jerffey   Explore This Website

Keep Hope Alive

"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.  Keep hope alive."  Jesse Jackson ”Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.”  Nelson Mandela Explore This Website

Spiritual Reality

Faith is the witness of Heaven upon our desires/hopes that give them spiritual reality, legal substance, and eventual visibility.  Rex Rouis The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.  An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil  to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. Harriet Beecher Stowe Explore This Website

The Brightest Light

In the dark dreary nights,  when the storm is at its most fierce,  the lighthouse burns bright  so the sailors can find their way home again.  In life the same light burns.  This light is fueled with love, faith, and hope.  And through life’s most fierce storms these three burn their brightest so we also can find our way home again. ~Unknown "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." ~William Sloan Coffin  Explore This Website