"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...

"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


It's hard some times to have FAITH. So much is unpleasant and unfulfilled in the world that to think that the above sentiment is true requires a real willing suspension of disbelief. Or, in other words, FAITH.

But how do you have faith? In light of all the sadness, misery, despair both in the world and in one's own life - day to day - how do you maintain an empowering context? And what qualifies as "the right thing"? How does one know that what one is engage in doing is in fact 'the right thing'? What if - in fact - it is the wrong thing?

Do I stay or do I go?
Do I quit or do I give more/try harder?
Do I love or do I hate?
Do I care or do I kill my heart?

These are not such existential questions as they are day-to-day inquiries. Watching the news? Dealing with bosses or clients? Fighting with lovers? Sitting alone contemplating one's own life and future and all the past choices that have brought you/one/me to this point!

SO...Ms. Lamott (who was no stranger to misery, unhappiness and loss) urges us that "HOPE BEGINS IN THE DARK..." - so whenever/wherever you are at your darkest, there is where hope begins. To hope. To pray. To wish. To dream. To commit! With blind faith...and if one is present (shows up) and tries to do the right thing (the good thing, the ethical thing, the hopeful thing) the "the dawn will come"! And most importantly, YOU DON'T GIVE UP!


"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning." - Lao-Tzu