Do you like to watch the news?
Has the chaos and atrocities got you feeling down?
Do you feel helpless?
Are you wondering what is happening to our world?
Such questioning only add stress to our already stressful lives. Yet, throughout this year I have yearned to replace helplessness with hopefulness. In these very dark days I wonder why. I think it is all beyond me, that I should give up on hope. But I cannot because a life without hope is a life not worth living.
Let’s make this a holiday season to give as we are able. To share what we can. To be grateful that we have enough so we can help others. It does not have to be financial. Perhaps instead you can smile as you stand in line; phone or reach out to a friend; speak kind words to a stranger. Let’s try to spread hope.
Also, gift yourself too. Replace the news feeds that seem to relish blaring out the bad and the ugly, the atrocities and man’s inhumanity to man and woman, with good news stories. It may be hard to find enough good news. Those are not ‘sexy’; they do not bring high ratings. Evil sells.
When you run out of good news in the media look around to find it where you are. There is enough if we just pause from the daily busyness and despairing thoughts and look. Once again as you celebrate this holiday season substitute Christmas with whatever you celebrate. We all need Peace, Hope and Love.
We wish you Peace which is the Spirit of Christmas
We wish you Hope, which is the Joy of Christmas
We wish you Love, which is the Heart of Christmas.
AND
We wish you a bad news blackout!
May you have good health, and find myriad moments of joy today and always!
Amen. Thank you Paula for your encouraging words. I quite agree with you; never, never give up on hope. God bless you always. Merry Christmas!
What is life without Hope? I can’t imagine that.
My dearest paula,
I marvel at your enthusiasum and hope for life but some of us just dont have that ability to be hopeful.
My life has been an ongoing circus of chaos, despair, hopelessness and emptiness for quite some time now. There is no blissful path to hope or joy for me. I have been deprived of such things for many years now.
I no longer believe in hope, people, fate, happiness, faith. Those are things that are imagined by ones psychiee. You tell yourself to feel these things.
How I wish i could find light and joy and happiness, but unfortunately those things are not in my path in this life.
I want to wish you a blessed Christmas regardless. Know that I treasure our friendship and hope for great things for you in 2024.
Hi Stephanie:
What can I say? Please do not give up on hope and joy. No-one, especially you should be so bereft of anything positive. You have given much and though it may seem useless, your reward will come. It must. Believe it!
Thanks, Paula. We really have to work at keeping positive these days. Any good comedy show on TV that you would recommend?
It is hard work too. Thanks for the comment. I just finished watching Harry Wild starring Jane Seymour. I think it’s on Netflix. Try it.