Friday: Things Are Looking Up
Hope. It is an audacious thing to have these days and it is necessary for our thriving. To have hope is to have faith that things will, eventually, be looking up. In fact, we humans have the ability to see hopeful things in the midst of really bad stuff.
Reflection: What is one thing that you can say is looking up these days?
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