Is Hope a 4 letter word?
HOPE, a seemingly simple four letter word that is just as important as oxygen for us to live. Where would be without Hope. I know I’ve spent the majority of the last year without hope. Seemingly my life as I knew it ceased to exist and there didn’t seem like much hope for the future. Without Hope, I simply felt despair. But I have the unique vantage point of experience. I have been through this type of desolation before, even worse probably in some aspects not as bad in others. There was a time in 2009 in the midst of my divorce that I seriously considered that I would NEVER be happy ever again. I rationalized that my new normal would be filled with pain, loneliness and solitude. I would simply have to learn to live with the emotional and psychological hell on earth. The moments I went through some 20 years ago give me a chill when I think about it. If I were to recount some of the horrific details you would shudder....