Sometimes hope is a radical act, sometimes a quietly merciful response, sometimes a second wind or just an increased awareness of goodness and beauty. Maybe you didn’t get what you prayed for, but what you got instead was waking to the momentousness of life, the power of loving hearts. You hope to wake up in time to see the dawn, the first light, a Technicolor sunrise, but the early morning instead is cloudy with mist. Still, as you linger, the ridge stands majestically black against a milky sky. And if you pay attention, you’ll see the setting of the moon that illumined us all as we slept. And you see a new day dawn.
--Anne Lamott,
Facebook, May 14, 2020
Image source: The comet Neowise above the fog on Mt. Tam, by @glassmello, shared at: https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/NEOWISE-hurtles-past-Earth-Everything-you-need-15411272.php
Beautiful!
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