“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
~ Anne Lamott
~ Anne Lamott
Hope is something that I think women know a lot about. I know of women who have held on by a thread of pure hope when they were in an abusive relationship and were brave enough to make a change; women who are single moms and give their children hope every day in spite of the fact that they don’t know where the next meal may be coming from; women who continue to hold on to their dreams when the people around them do everything possible to convince them that they are unworthy and will never succeed. And it is these women who prove that it is worth having hope in the most difficult circumstances – that the courage to hope and take action based on possibility is something real and can be life-changing.
Hope isn’t the silver lining of a cloud. It is something you dare to do in spite of adversity and obstacles. It doesn’t mean success; it means possibility or chance. But it opens the door to something more and gives you a reason to keep on keeping on.
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