“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.”
—Jean Kerr
To me, hope is more like a potato than a tomato. Tomatoes grow in plain sight and can be picked right off the vine, but we need to dig in the dirt to find potatoes. The same is true of hope. Sometimes we simply have to muck around in our inner dirt a little in order to find seeds of hope. But no matter how deeply buried or how tough the excavation, hope is always there. It is inherent within us. So, no matter how overgrown and obscured by loss and pain the path to hope may be, we can find it again.
Excerpted from How to Stay Upbeat in a Beat Down World by Sue Patton Thoele. Available on Amazon.
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