Nobody likes to sit in a collapsing house.
Or on a plummeting plane.
Or over a bankrupted business.
Or in a foxhole under fire.

That’s why there is “practical thinking.”

Good happens, but bad still happens too.
You try to plan to alleviate or avoid the bad.

But it still happens.

Cars crash.
Cancer comes.
Shooters slay.

Lovers leave.

Some fail.
Some are failed.

—

We breathe in.
We breathe out.

Light and dark. Light and dark.

The sun still comes up in the morning.
The sun still descends in the evening.

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Hope is in the holding on and hanging in.

When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
– Psalm 73:21-26

Thy will be done.