Topic: Responding With Hope When Darkness Comes

How do we respond to the darkness lurking about us? Responding with passive acceptance and an unwillingness to fight back against the darkness in our life can be the same as responding with absolute despair. In contrast, responding with panic to the darkness in our life produces the same result as giving in to fear. Regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves, responding triumphantly to the darkness is only possible with hope. When life puts you in darkness then responding with hope is the ultimate victory. Responding with hope in the darkness is the only way to help yourself and the only way you have of letting God help you. Any darkness in any form, whether the darkness is a physical illness, physical condition, or physical obstacle can be dealt with and can be overcome with hope. Without hope, life circumstances can get us down or even destroy us. However, with hope, we have energy in our soul giving us the persistence and insistence to deal with the obstacles we face each day. We may not be able to eliminate a physical obstacle, disability, or situation. However, we can live in spite of physical obstacles, disabilities, and situations. We can live in spite of the darkness without letting the darkness take away our humanity…only if we respond to the darkness with hope. We can live a full and productive life regardless of our weaknesses, disabilities, or failings when we fuel up our life with the fuel of life..the fuel of life we call hope.

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