Hope

Hope is a belief, not a thought. Hope is believing in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. It is feeling like what we want we can have. It is the feeling that things will turn out for the best. Hope is sometimes wishing for something or someone.

Hopefulness is sometimes confused with optimism, which is actually a 'mind' state, not a 'feeling' state. Hope is emotional whereas optimism is intellectual. Optimism involves reaching a conclusion after deliberate thoughts that bring about positive attitudes (according to Wikepedia anyway!).

When we are confronted with things we cannot control, we can attempt to think and think and think about it, but that changes nothing - cannot alter whatever outcome is to come. As a mom, this is very difficult to accept. For me, anyway, I want to direct, and orchastrate as much as possible. Yet, when the uncertain becomes our certainty, is it possible to give in to hope and the faith that what we will will be and that is what is the result we actually need?

Hoping...