Currie's Gratitude 6 August 2013

I’d “hoped” that one-word prompts might keep writing somewhat simpler; and while sort of does, it’s also making me think deeper…

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. [Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams]

Of all the quotes about Hope, this one has me riveted. I’ve mostly “used” Hope, like a pacifier, to soothe me in the challenging times, to help me “rise above it” as I was so often told as a child when I was troubled or confused.

I am grateful I haven’t let go the string of my Hope, haven’t released it to the sky. At times I was sure it had removed itself from my grasp. I stopped looking in its direction, often for so very long a time that I wasn’t sure it was even there where I’d left it…

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. [Anne Lamott, Plan B, Further Thoughts on Faith] 

Sometimes “simpler” is letting things BE, just as they are, just as they are NOT… 

I love you, Currie