Hope. A word so small with such strength and power. I recently questioned and doubted this little word and began to chalk it up to nothing more than wishful thinking. Did it actually make a difference to hope for the best? What use is it really?

Life got a little disheveled and things weren’t going ‘my way’ or happening on my terms. And that is hard for me. I’ve always been a person who changed every situation that didn’t feel good to me. I’d quit the job, move to a new city, go back for a second chance, switch careers – I had control. So when it comes to the part of not being able to change the situation, when it is out of my control, and I know that I’m supposed to change my attitude about it – that’s the struggle. I stumbled hard. How do I deal? How can I just continue to hope and when seeing no real progress? What’s the point?