Have
you ever stopped to wonder what it is that keeps you going from day-to-day? What
lies behind your ability to fight your way through periods of discouragement or
disappointment? What makes you believe that sooner or later bad times will get
better?
It
is a little, four-letter word that has endless power in it; power to bring
failures back to success; power to bring the sick back to strength. It is hope.
There
is something about hope that makes clear thinking possible. When you are faced
with a problem, do you regard it with hope, or with dejection? If you hope
there is a solution, if you believe that somewhere there is a solution, you are
probably going to find it.
We
should never write off anything as impossible or as a failure. God gave us the
capacity to think our way through any problem. The hopeful thinker projects
hope and faith into the darkest situation, and lights it up. As long as the
thought of defeat is kept out of a person’s mind, victory is certain to come
sooner or later.
Hope
has the quality of expectancy in it. When you hope strongly, something in you
expects to have that hope realized. And this invisible called expectancy, which
is closely allied to faith, can affect events in a remarkable way. What people
think you expect to them, they will usually deliver. And what your own
subconscious mind thinks you expect of it, it will deliver. When you hope
strongly enough, expectancy goes to work for you. And when expectancy turns the
key, great things will happen.
---Norman Vincent Peale.
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