If In Despair Seek Help And Accept Any Of Life's Good Graces

Do you ever feel despair?

Not a pleasant feeling is it? A feeling of being lost and not knowing where to turn or what to do?

Can creep up on us. Can home in on us from afar. Or so it seems.

But is it really true or are we somehow being blinded? Is life really as black and bleak as we may make out?

Are we really all alone and without help, assistance or resource?

I have had my low moments but even in these down times there seems to be a spark of life around. A little bit of vitality that can easily be missed.

If we can just grab hold of it. We can then use it to help us see the brighter lights and life - just over the horizon of life. Just beyond our vision.

It is surely there but hard to see and even harder to feel. Yet it is there all the same.

Just patiently waiting for us.

If we can just put our hand out we can almost touch it. We can see it. We just need to move in its direction.

We just need to use it to help shine a small but significant light through the darkness that is ours in those moments.

A little light shining through. A little hope there for us. Away from the despair.

Given time and closer proximity, and less focus on our woes and more on this light, this lighter aspect, can help draw us out of our repose.

Out and more into the promise of better. The promise of lighter times. The promise of some peace and contentment rather than anguish and torment.

Let a little light in and it can cast out many a shadow. See the light and the shadow just becomes absent.

Then realize that actually that light is not without but actually its origin is within us. A little beacon of hope.

To give us strength and increased resolve. To allow us to move on and remove ourselves into the valley away from the shadowy and dark hills in which we sojourned.

To find comfort. Solace. Friendship. Life and love once more.

And to make our first weak and rickety steps on the path to better times, more joyous feelings, greater contentment, and some satisfaction. Some happiness that we are still us and that we are on the perhaps slow road to recovery.

And just need to put one more foot in front of the other. Leave despair behind. And onward we go . . .