Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Hopes, peace and contentment

That little voice in my head has been speaking to me and through feeling grateful again, I have regained hope for the future.  It isn't hope for anything in particular, just peace and contentment.  In my younger days, when I aspired to one thing or another, I didn't have time to be grateful...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Hope

Every night we go to bed, without any assurance of being alive the next morning but still we set the alarms to wake up. That's HOPEIt is also faith.  As a person who has a broken spirit, I know that without hope and faith, the possibility of becoming whole again is bleek.  I have...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Fate, destiny and being alone

The following post was written at a time of missing JR so bad, feeling so alone, but having the faith that I would find love again, I was ready . . . I could feel my new love and that is so very special . . . a confirmation that you know that you know and have no doubt about your feelings, holding...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Hope, Faith and A Positive Attitude

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.”  Emily Dickinson “Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Life's Best Moments

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 The roller coaster ride of emotions can...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

There is nothing love cannot face

There is nothing love cannot face;  there is no limit to its faith,  its hope, and its endurance. St. Paul I Corinthians 13:7 Those are some of the most beautiful words ever written  from my favorite part of the bible. I don't read it often enough! Have...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Stop Me

An old love from the past had come back into my life.  It was an unresolved issue that haunted me most of my adult life.  He had joined the military and never came back . . . well, not until many years after I became a widow.  We had a second chance for a future together when he...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Only Yesterday . . .

"You were the dawn breaking the night, the promise of morning light filling the world surroundin' me." I've read some sad tales about loneliness, lack of love and Valentine's Day this past week in Bloggerville.  There are people in my life who are suffering from loneliness...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Breathing in Heaven and Earth

When we choose not to focus On what is missing from our lives But are grateful for the abundance that's present, We experience heaven on earth. Sarah BreathnachIt was a troubling chapter in my life . . . I was so lost and desperately seeking the way to crawl out of the situation, knowing that...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Great expectations

In an older post,  I defined great expectations  as going beyond hope and faith. Often faith is described as seeing the outcome before it happens.  I felt it, I knew it.  I just didn't know what "it" was.  My hope was to be happy again.  Some people are meant to share...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

When our world falls apart

People are like stained glass windows:  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,  but when the darkness sets in their true  beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Clinging to the Core When Our World Falls...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wants, needs and a little faith

In the midst of rough financial times, there is always that little something we want, but don't necessarily need . . . a little treat, a reward for surviving the struggle. The following article comes from the Guideposts newsletter, which always provides me with a wealth of inspiration along with...
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