Hope

“hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”

― Anne Lamott

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it was a night without hope

twisted sheets

pillows askew

and a mind that would not shut the #@&%@#! Up

a night littered

with worries

about things that didn’t happen

things that did happen

a night with a vivid dream

in which I failed, miserably

I woke up screaming

“I hate myself” and

“I suck at life”

now it is time

to dig deep and find the power

the Presence

to find the calm, the space

the ability to breathe again

that comes from having

Love

God

The Sacred

Something other, something bigger

Present

at my core

the source of hope

the beginning of a smile