Let me speak to you of hope. Take a breath of faith, so to speak, for you are convinced, are you not, that one breath follows another even though you know there will come a time when it will not.
Think of the billions of breaths bestowed on you. Think of the next beat of your heart.
Is it not hope that causes you to plan a day, set a menu, organize an outing, eat, shower, dress, work?
Unless we act, however simply, we become a sack of cells, unmoving, unloving, uncaring – for ourselves or for others. It is how we fight for life, these billions of acts of courage. It is how we disallow depression, depletion, despair. We learn to act, not react.
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