“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

It’s there in plain sight.

 

Some days we just need to look harder for it.

 

It can come from within.  It can come from those we know and love.  It can also come from complete strangers.

 

We can discover it in the natural world and wilderness.  It’s present in the birds singing, it can be found in the flowers blooming.  It can come from a shift in weather.

 

It can come when the sun comes up, or even when it goes down.

 

It can often appear during a long walk.  Or in the moments before drifting off to sleep.  Other days we wake up and can just feel it in the air.

 

It can come from a book someone we’ll never meet wrote.  It can come from words in a speech.  It can definitely be found in music.

 

Paradoxically, it can also come from complete silence.

 

You can often feel it at the end of a seated meditation.  But it can also come when you’re just moving through your day.

 

Some of us feel it most when surrounded by others.  For many of us, solitude offers its own versions of it, as we decipher signal through the noise.

 

There is power in feeling it fully.  It can act as a shield against outside forces.

 

We all need it.  It’s fuel that we can thrive on.

 

We never truly lose it, unless we decide we have.  So remember, when all is said and done, you can find hope in all sorts of places.

 

You never need to be without it.

 

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