We are the captain of our lives.
The waves, the storms, the days. They all come and go. We move our body, our ship, across the sea we call life. We choose to sail against or with the current. It is never easy to go against the current. The wind may not be on our side, but we can do our best to be persistant and move in the direction we want to go. Eventually the wind will be at our backs. Pushing the sails at full force.
Hope takes us through every storm.
Hope is the one thing that helps us follow through. When times get tough we somehow manage. Hope gives us faith. Faith in ourselves. Faith in each other. Faith in the world. Faith that things will all work out. If we have hope we have courage to fight through these storms. Storms filled with bad relationships, with huge debts, with loss of loved ones, with mistakes we have made.
We must be prepared for the worst.
Storms of all calibers approach from the horizon. Sometimes we are prepared because we can see it coming, but there are times when storms wake us in the night and blindside us. When we least expected it. We have no control of storms, but we can have faith we will make it through. We must have hope that there are days of calm water. Water smooth as glass that reflects a rising sun. That allows us to see to the depths with clarity.
Hope is what keeps us here and takes us where we want to go.
Too true. I have seen this both on the large scale, in everything that we have gone through, and are still going through, with Anya, and in the small scale, as I have just finished a really lousy week at work. I think that it helps to have the right perspective on things. When you look back on life, you can see that there have been hard times before, but the always come to an end and things get good again. It reminds me of a discussion two characters had in an old X-Men comic book (there is more to comics than most people realize) on the occasion of a character’s funeral. The discussion came around to the old saying about every cloud having a silver lining. One character countered that sometimes there is no silver lining and you just suffer under the cloud’s shadow. The comeback to that? It is still just a cloud, and no cloud lasts forever.
No cloud lasts forever. I really like that idea. I may just borrow that phrase in the future and that concept. Do you know what character discussed that philosophy? I’d love to give credit to it and you of course!