I struggle with discipline of the mind -- to find hope, to nurture hope. I feel like “the car’s” got a dead battery now, maybe since I dropped everything this summer for my event. Oh, well.
Here are some tidbits from my daily calendar to help this blog get jump-started again:
“Hope can keep us from becoming bitter and angry when things are less than perfect. Nurture the soft spot in your heart [soul] where hope abides.”-- Anonymous
I like this one too:
“Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” -- Louisa May Alcott.
Yes, my aspirations are like stars -- like charting a course in a boat, sailors believe in the stars and charts, and follow them faithfully to where they lead.
And one more, from J.B. Priestly, “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
And of course, my favorite Starbucks barrista:
“I am always fit for Monday!”
Her amazing attitude, wonderful! Maybe she has something to be hopeful for, a prospect for a fresh try, and knows of the magic waiting somewhere….maybe not. Maybe she just has a great attitude of life. Faith and fitness have to be combined, and boy, does she have it!
For me, I just take it one day at a time -- the variable discipline will give way again to a routine. I have faith.
