Posts from the ‘Hope / Healing’ Category
Wednesday of Hope – Cup of Hope
Drinking our cup is not simply adapting ourselves to a bad situation and trying to use it as well as we can. Drinking our cup is a hopeful, courageous, and self-confident way of living. It is standing in the world with head erect, solidly rooted in the knowledge of who we are, facing the reality that surrounds us and responding to it from our hearts.
– Henri Nouwen
Wednesday of Hope – Courage of the Fragile Blossom
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
– Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Reborn
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Wednesday of Hope – Look for the Light
There is light in the darkness. You just have to find it.
– bell hooks
Wednesday of Hope – The Light Always Returns
There is a perfectly still moment right before dawn, when the sun gathers itself and then steps into the dark world and everything is so filled with light that any doubts from that long night are barely a memory. It is the way of all things that the night ends and the light returns. The light always returns.
– Brian Andreas, Story People
Wednesday of Hope – Darkest before Dawn
On this Feast of St. Lucy, whose name means Light – celebrated in the darkest days in the Northern Hemisphere, I’ve chosen this quote for those times we find ourselves in darkness, no matter the time of year or the hemisphere.
We must believe it is darkest before the dawn of a new world. We will see it when we believe it.
– Saul Alinsky
Wednesday of Hope – Life Worth Living
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something “greater,” more “genuine.” But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
– Etty Hillesum, Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum
