Courage in Action:
a blog of Empowered Life Counseling LLC
Blog posts and news about the therapy practice, including mental health education and resources; reflections about authentic living in times of stress and change; and business updates.
Blessing of Hope
Words of wisdom from artist, writer, and ordained minister Jan Richardson. My sense of hope can get a little wobbly on a Monday. It's the day when our present circumstances can feel the most endless to me. But I keep learning how blessedly stubborn hope can be—true hope, real hope, hope that is something quite other than wishful thinking. Hope seems to keep working in me like a deep muscle memory, setting me in motion when I don't know how to move on my own. If your own hope has been getting wobbly, this is for you.BLESSING OF HOPESo may we knowthe hope
‘Show Up With Hope’: Anne Lamott’s Plan for Facing Adversity
I ran across this post shared on social media a while back and its been rolling around my head - the courage that it takes to have hope for the future, in spite of knowledge to the contrary. Sometimes a message is best communicated directly from the source (shared on Facebook on May 14, 2020): ‘Show Up With Hope’: Anne Lamott’s Plan for Facing Adversity
With Earth beset by conflict, climate change, pollution, and other ills, the best-selling author asks: What better time to be hopeful?
You would almost have to be nuts to be filled with hope in a world so rife with hunger, hatred, climate change, pollution, and pestilence, let alone the self-destructive or severely annoying behavior of certain people, both famous and just down the hall, none of whom we will name by name.
