this too shall pass

There are innumerable personal situations that can cause creeping hopelessness.  You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness with only months to live or a parent dies unexpectedly.  Maybe your troubled teenager is on the run again and you feel you have no where to turn. The job you have loved for years suddenly gets cut with no forewarning.  Or the boss who always understood your personal struggles and insecurities and willingly worked with you, gets transferred.  Or the situation that every one dreads, your relationship partner informs you that he wants t[...]