Fifi's Muse

If today is not great, tomorrow will be better; If tomorrow is just sad  Next week will be looking up, If next week is bleak, Next month the sun will shine If next  month is gloomy  Maybe wait till next year  I mused over these words recently after they just fell into my head. Resilience is a great quality to possess, so is tenacity. To really be consistently positive, optimism must be stubbornly clung to. Some may say that the train of thought above is a little naive. I can understand this line of thought but without hope the things life throws at us could easily sink our emotional ships, blissfully sailing in carefree seas. I wrote a blog post about Job a few months ago and while looking at the topic of hope in a bible search I realized that Job, who had a very bleak experience in life, spoke so much about hope. Hmm,....way to hold on Job! He said, "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new sho...

You try to put a finger on it but it proves somewhat, evasive it's that feeling that everything is there but nothing quite exists it's that blah, that dance between existence and non-existence not sadness but not joy not despair but not hope just somewhere in between on the way to a destination After the Blah comes the awakening, somewhere down the road, days become less about that feeling, and more about purpose, more about hope, more about meaning.