**This is a cross pollinated post from hopeallianceblog.ca, a new venture connected to my hopealliance.ca passion project. It's been a very long time since I posted to my beloved blog KARE Givers, and I have rediscovered many, many draft posts so it's time for me to get out of writing what I used to way too long ago. I'm feeling revitalized and rejuvenated... finally.
Hope without fear doesn't exist; that's called naivety.
Hope is the alpha. All fear, all resilience, all action is derived from hope, "the thing with feathers... that sings the tune without the words" as so beautifully described by Emily Dickinson in her poem entitled "Hope"...
Hope without action is wishful thinking.
Hope without fear doesn't exist; that's called naivety.
Hope is the alpha. All fear, all resilience, all action is derived from hope, "the thing with feathers... that sings the tune without the words" as so beautifully described by Emily Dickinson in her poem entitled "Hope"...
As I sit at my desk in my office listening to the birds sing in the
courtyard outside my window, I'm reminded of this beautiful poem and
what it needs to teach us during this most fearful time.
This global pandemic is the storm creating fear that what we need
to become true, beautiful and good in the world once again may not
happen the way we intend it to.
Resilience is the tune without the words perched in our souls allowing us to keep going despite this fear.
The birds keep singing.
Their song is the action that can never stop at all in times of crisis
and despair, because this is what turns hope from something we wish for,
to something we can do.
