Hope, let it shine!

Hope begins in the dark,

 the stubborn hope that if you just show up

 and try to do the right thing,

 the dawn will come. 

You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. 

Anne Lamott

I have been wondering about HOPE--what it is, where it comes from and where we find it on those days when the darkness comes.  Anne Lamott says it starts right there in the darkness....I wonder if perhaps, just perhaps she might be right.

I look around at the world

seeking to find the goodness I once knew.

I seek the light

and

yet

everywhere I look,

I see the dark.

People going into the movie theaters for planned massacres,

shooting up temples,

blowing up things,

and

even last night on the news

there it was

some dumb soul robbing the "wally world"

and

then a big ole shoot em up right there in the parking lot of the local walmart.

Where in the hell has all the goodness gone? Are we becoming a desensitized society of video induced cowboys and cowgirls?

I watch and wonder

if this is the world 

that always existed

or 

did I view it with the naive eyes of

someone who loved the light?

I keep on walking,

walking through the world,

going through my ordinary routine,

wondering

just where the rays of light and love and hope have wandered?

I sit back

people talking about each other,

criticizing,

just being mean boys and girls 

prodding and pinching and pulling each others pig tails

some just plain miserable in their own skin 

just plain mean down to the core...

misery loves company and they make sure that

they are in a large company even if they have to form the brigade.

has cynicism won?

has the bad and ugly overtaken the good?

have i become part of their posse 

cause 

I don't see much good any more

but the one good thing about all of that is this........
I keep searching

for it

keep on 

trying to believe

that 

HOPE
and

Goodness

and

LOVE

they float up in the light and

win.....

Goodness shines down in the dark path,

someone smiles,

a hand sticks out in the thick woods when least expected,

love

electrons I can't see

bathe my injured soul

and

HOPE

....

that thing I keep looking for and waiting for 

...

that thing....

somehow

in the midst of the darkness

when I least expect it

a 

ray of LIGHT

shines though and pulls me along

bathing me

and

I feel it

Hope that is

it still rises 

up and catches me.....

thankful on this day for just that

a bit of hope...

Happy Tuesday...

be a ray of hope

for someone today...

I'll try if you do!!!