feel trouble all around you and don't know how to escape. That sounds pretty dramatic, melodramatic even; but sometimes that's how things feel.
Even if you practice thanksgiving and believe there's much good to come and a great deal to hope for ..... keeping the faith requires some effort. Perhaps the issue becomes whether or not to continue. At each turn in the road (each new page in the script?) a person can stop or keep going; I always saw it that simply. Being simpleminded, I tend to reduce things to terms I can manage. I've always kept going, at least tried to go on.
Paths can be changed by events; we can choose something different because experience has taught us something. And we may as well accept when the responsibility falls on us. Doesn't make it easier, perhaps it just clarifies it.
I do not doubt in the least that my journey has been easier than that traveled by many others. And I can point to many blessings and joys. So why can it be difficult to see beyond now, to look past the cloud and remember all things pass.
Maybe it's because life passes along with troubles, time moves on and we lose some potency. So we measure how far we've come and try to understand how far we might yet go, since we don't know how far there is to go. Sometimes, though, you think it would be best to stop and rest, or maybe just stop.
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