KEEP YOUR FACE TO THE SUNSHINE AND YOU CANNOT SEE THE SHADOW

peaceful happy smiling thoughts to keep the

destructive dark obtrusive ones away

Every Day Is a New Beginning

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don't give up.----- --Anne Lamott

Putting On Hope

It's rather blurry. But this is what it says. "Tell us about hope" they asked. She said "Every morning hope is waiting on a hanger in my closet. Some days hope fits me just right. Some days it's a tight fit. Some days I don't get dressed until the afternoon. And some days I need to fasten all the buttons, and pull the collar up around my chin." I don't know if the author wants her name published. ( I don't take any credit for it - except the way it applies to my life.) She goes on to say that, "The idea that hope is something I can choose to put on is a comforting one to me. Some days putting on hope is effortless. On the darkest days, I cannot see hope as a choice. Those are the days I need to reach out in the darkness until I feel hope. And if I cannot find it, cannot feel it, I have chosen to believe hope is still there.