Hope

There is never a dawn that is darker than the night. Each and every dawn brings light. Sometimes it’s cloudy and heavily overcast but it’s always brighter than the night that preceded it. Sometimes the dawn comes with such clarity and brilliance that it stuns the senses and we stand in awe of such magnificence, warmth and beauty.

There is something else in our life that is just as remarkable as the dawn. It rises when we do and sometimes it is foremost in our thoughts and sometimes it rests quietly in the background.

It is in our life to dispel the darkness just like the dawn does. It shows up without a ritual, a spell or even a wish. It stands ever ready to pull us from the darkness. It is a force that shines through impossibility like the dawn shines through the clouds. It is called by many names in many cultures and we call it Hope.

Hope allows us to look at the darkness and to feel that something will be along soon to make it disappear. Hope is that feeling that disputes what we see, what we are told. Hope is the power that turns our thoughts and imagination to possibilities instead of perceived inevitabilities. Hope is the unseen hand that pulls us from the edge of the abyss. 

When we throw ourselves into the sea of despair, hope is the life jacket we forget we had on. Shun it again and again and hope will still show up. Let reason and logic cast it aside and it will return like the invincible fighter it is. 

When the deepness of the darkness isolates us from finding a way out it is hope that lights the candle. A candle will not illuminate our whole path but it will illuminate the next step and the next step after that. And when those steps lead us to the dawn of a new, better day, hope will again rest quietly in the background, always ready.

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 Patrick McBride 
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