HOPE and what do you call it?

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Hope has been called foolish, Pollyanna, unrealistic by some.

Actually, it is getting on with life rather than choosing paralysis.

It is believing in better tomorrows rather than imagining a terrorist hiding around every corner.

It's getting back on planes, and eating out in restaurants instead of supping on paranoia.

It is you and I looking for a place to let the best in us come alive.

This story appeared in the Dec. 8, 2001 edition of The Miami Herald. An 11-year old boy was told five months before that he had two to five days to live. His skin was ghostly white. Tubes were everywhere - his body, skin and bone.

He suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy. He was asked "Would you like a new toy? A favorite food?"

"No," he replied, "but I would like for someone to publish my poems so others can find in them the strength and resolve I've found."

Fast foward to many days beyond the two to five days he had been given to live and he could be found at a Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Alexandria, Va. This same little boy, Mattie Stepanek, signing copies of his newly published book, "Journey Through Heartsongs, the sequel to his first book Heartsongs," a best seller.

Two books in less than half a year.

He was supposed to be dead. Instead, the color returned to his face. Bouncing up and down in his wheelchair the optimism of hope gave him new life.

He finally succumbed but I point out that while he lived longer than any of the doctors thought he would, he never thought small, not at all.

The door of hope will never open if you have replaced it with a wall of despair.

Hope is the centipede who never gives up on trying to pus his or her best foot forward.

Hope stands in utter darkness and patiently persistently waits for dawn.

And what would I wish for you on yet another day we share (I do not know all of you who read these blog thoughts but I do know we are brothers and sisters created by one Almighty God) I would wish you may never forget and always hold dear the thought “that those who want to sing will always find a song.”

And this closing thought “If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault Psalm 23:4

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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