Daily Gratitude: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Yes this is another hope message but I think we be all the hope we can muster at this time in our lives.

Others have said the same thing using metaphors such as “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel”.

There is light up ahead despite the darkness (as this quote says) but the biggest and darkest obstacle we face is the one that comes from keeping our eyes closed. You can’t see any light if your eyelids are slammed shut. I think this is what limits people more than anything.

Whenever adversity hits, open your eyes as wide as possible. This will increase your peripheral vision as well. So what? It’s often in that peripheral vision that the answers lie. That’s part of being open minded. Look at everything around you and see what you can make of it. Is there a solution lurking under the grass by the side of the tree? Maybe. But you have to spot it and then go check it out. It may not be the solution but you’d be surprised at how often there might be another path through the forest lying just past that tree. A path you couldn’t possibly discern until you got closer and investigated.

That happened to me last weekend on my training walks. I was trying to add miles and was walking along perfunctorily and just happened to look to my left. There was a path. What is that? I wondered. So I decided to follow it. It was a lovely path through the woods and eventually led back to a road I needed to get to anyway. AND, it was quiet as well as filled with beauty. I had to open my eyes.

You’d be surprised how bright the light might be if you were to open them up a big as possible.