"Hope is like a drop of honey..."
- Tahereh Mafi
Like honey, hope is sweet, nourishing, and healing. It's simple and pure, yet complex.
Hope is also like a field of blooming tulips, fresh rain, a cloudless sky...
As I child, like many children, I saw hope in the first springtime robin and the first showing of forsythia. I saw hope in rainbows and sunlight sparkling on water ripples.
What stirred the hope in you when you were a child? What about now?
We need hope. Actually, we have it, always. We have access to hope, but we don't always experience it.
Today, let's watch for things that stir our hope. Let's hold hope and trust what is unfolding in our lives and in the world. And let's love generously. As Paulo Coelho said:
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
When we strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better too.”
Believing,
Charlene
THE FIFTH GIFT IS HOPE.
