The Audacity of Hope!

Just started reading this book last week. It's author is our president. It is a good book and I am learning a lot, especially new vocabulary! :D It's also made me think about life in general and the people that have hope and the people that don't. I feel for the people that have none. I feel these people are just getting by day by day waiting to die, nothing to look forward to. I realize that I was once one of these people. That if you told me that there was hope, I wouldn't believe you.

I am glad that even though it took me into my 4oth decade I am able to turn this around. I do have hope and I expect that hope to bear fruit and provide me with a bounty of pleasure. My thoughts on the things I use to hope for and what I hope for now are very different. Before they were materialistic, immature, and selfish hopes and dreams (when I allowed myself to have them). Now though they are more mature, non materialistic and more for others than for myself.

I pray and hope for the best for my family and friends. I pray they are happy, healthy and know the difference between what is important and what is not. I pray for the homeless and the really poor that come into my store and just a kind word to them can make them cry; I pray they get more kind words every day and that people stop and look at them and realize they are humans with feelings, just as you and I are.

I am also thankful for all the hopes that I have had that have already come to be. Such as my mother and I are friends and close again. I am employed and I just got my new job which starts Monday!!! Yeah! I am meeting new friends in this big huge town that I live in and so are my kids and they are not our old friends but that doesn't mean they are not wonderful friends, they are just new. I am so thankful that I got to spend the day with my favorite grandniece and she was a joy to be with. Those sweet baby hugs, the way she smelled of maple syrup and the excitement in her eyes whenever I would peek at her during peek a boo. I am also so very thankful for the peace and calm that my children and I have been experiencing the last few days even though they are a little behind in their lessons and usually get very antsy. I am also grateful for the 4 hours over time I got yesterday. That might pay the water bill! Thank you God for all the wonderful riches you bring my way and for the way that you have brought me to you and allowed me to leave my problems at your door, knowing you will take care of them for me and I can just breath and pray and enjoy.