Being hopeful is the doorway to real possibility. . .

Feeling hopeless about a situation in your life makes all forward movement seem impossible.  It’s not an accident that we have people around us who can share our sorrows and express hope for us when our own is depleted.  Our lives are quite intentional, aren’t they?  As has been said many times, nothing is happening accidentally. When one of us is down, another person appears who can show us the rainbow that’s hidden from our view.  She didn’t appear haphazardly.  She had an assignment.  And you are fulfilling that “assignment” on occasion too for some one else.

I like believing in angels, both ones wearing skin and ones “from the other side.”  The nudging we get when it’s time to give up a worn out idea just can’t be ignored.  We might not let the idea go willingly but “our messenger” persists until we acknowledge the nudge.  Instead of fighting it, seeing it as the inspiration to welcome the new opportunities that are wearing our name, makes imminent sense.  We aren’t passing through this experience willy-nilly.  We have guides.  We have assignments.  We have others who need our presence as way showers too.

Knowing that we are never alone with any situation is reason for having hope.  Nothing will ever be beyond our capabilities because so much help surrounds us.  Much of it we can’t see and we often ignore the signs that are always there.  But the people who wander into our gatherings, large or small, have been invited.  Always.  What an awesome awareness.  And we don’t always appreciate the “wanderers.”  That’s okay. They don’t need our appreciation to do their work.  How lucky that is for us.

Hope begets hope.  And hopelessness creates more hopelessness.  It’s a choice we can make to believe in the possibility for all good things to come to us.  But even if we are visited by experiences that aren’t to our liking, we can decide to see the underlying silver lining there too.  There is one.  Always.  It’s a mindset we can master.  We all know others who have mastered it.  Let’s join their ranks now.  Being hopeful and living with the assurance that hope instills in us makes life so much more manageable.  And fruitful.  Today is a great day to claim a new perspective for ourselves.  Hope is a wonderful thing!  It changes us but it changes everyone we touch too.  Do your part now in making this a more hopeful world.  Won’t you?