Our Featured Title this week is The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams, and in her post, she talked about how to generate more hope. So tell us, readergirlz, how do you generate hope in your life? Name something that have given you hope in the last year. And let's get to spreading the HOPE!
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Things that give me hope -
ReplyDeleteThis will come as a shock to no one who knows me, but I'm a pretty high-strung person. Hope, and peace, are things I try to find by enjoying those everyday moments: walking the dog down the winding streets of my neighborhood, historic Greenwich Village. Really good, strong coffee on the patio. A glass of wine and a really good book. Catching up with an old friend. All of those pleasures recharge me so I can face the days when hope is in lesser supply.
I love your hope methods, Micol! I'll join you. And I'll add yoga. It sounds hokey but it makes me feel all open to the world and its possibilities.
ReplyDeleteI pick up the phone and call someone I've been meaning to call for a long time--maybe make a plan to meet for lunch. Reaching out = hope. If the hopelessness is from writing troubles or being overwhelmed by work, I crank up the music and just dance until everything feels possible again.
ReplyDeleteI sing.
ReplyDeleteI laugh.
I share.
I look up at the sky.
I pray!
ReplyDeleteThis is probably going to sound cheesy, but here goes. I teach ten-year-olds everyday. So, if I ever need a dose of hope, I go into school and really, really try to focus on seeing the world the way they see it. I listen to them a little harder. I laugh at their jokes. I think about how their intelligence kind of blows my mind a lot of the time. That gives me hope.
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