When the light fades and the darkness comes and all seems lost,
Where is Hope then?
When the night comes and the fear rises and you are alone again,
Where is Hope then?
When the morning comes and the anxiety remains and you feel like giving up,
Where is Hope then?
When the dreams fade and the winds blow and the walls close in,
Where is Hope then?
Hope is not a wish, a desire, a desperate holding on.
Hope is not an absent friend, full of promise but never present.
Hope is not a nebulous dream, a vacuous aim, someone else’s goal.
Hope is not a void, empty, pointless, cold.
Hope is Love
A Love far stronger than we know
Hope is Truth
A Truth that brings faith and the courage to go on
Hope is Peace
A Peace that dissolves turmoil and despair
Hope is Light
A Light that is the essence of all new life.
That Hope is within you, it always was.
When all seems hopeless that hope remains,
veiled but constant in its promise.
That Hope is a seed, a sunrise, a new beginning,
A glimpse of something better,
A memory of Love, once known but since forgotten.
When all else is lost
Hope will be there
Hidden amidst the confusion, the noise, the desperation
Hope will be there
In the darkest of hours
Hope will be there
On the most Hopeless of days
Hope will be there.
For Hope is yours and mine and everyones, it cannot not be.
Hope will carry you from Fear into Love
From Death into Life, from Darkness into Light.
You can find it in Nature,
The smile of a stranger,
The candle flame shining within the darkness.
Hope is yours to receive and to share and becomes greater with that sharing.
Hope is Love…
Waiting to be invited in again.
Love is the principle of all Life.
Welcome to that Love and the Light that shines from it.