Week 1: Hope - Wednesday

 I sauntered into the kitchen this morning, cranky and reluctant to greet the day. My body protesting every movement. It seems my recovery from back surgery in September is a zig zag, not the straight line every day I'm getting better and better thing that I would prefer. Who knew? Well apparently such ups, downs and sideways are as normal as they are frustrating.

Hope is a bit of a long shot for me today, so I'll reprise an older post and let the words of others light the way today.

Take care of each other.

Lord save us all from…a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  Mark Twain

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. S.A. Sachs

Hope is grief's best music.  Author Unknown

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.  Maya Angelou

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.  Lin Yutang

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.  
Samuel Smiles

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops…at all.  Emily Dickinson

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