"The Indo-European root of the word “hope” is the same root from which the word “curve” (to bend) comes from. Therefore, the root of the word “hope” gives us the connotation of a change in direction; going in a different way.
The Hebrew and Greek equivalent of our English word “hope” has the meaning of a strong and confident expectation." -From Hope International
just around the bend a vista of such beauty many rocky paths climbed in darkest nights
It is fascinating that hope and curve come from the same root. A quote from “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope in 1732:
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
Suggests that in living a life of hope we seldom get there, and yet I believe that nothing ever was except it was first hoped for, then dreamed and then created. My life to come has arrived and I am loving every day of it.
At some point in the distant past I stumbled upon “if you can imagine it, you can create it.” I had been practicing that for years but unconsciously, and once I moved it into the conscious and intentional realm, the more real and realized it became. We should do a workshop sometime on “living the dream.”
Yes, we should!
As I’ve said before once I began saying Yes to life…the life I was given was beyond my imagination.
The Course of Our Seasons 
It is fascinating that hope and curve come from the same root. A quote from “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope in 1732:
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
Suggests that in living a life of hope we seldom get there, and yet I believe that nothing ever was except it was first hoped for, then dreamed and then created. My life to come has arrived and I am loving every day of it.
I know what you mean, Gary. We are living a life I could not even imagine before. Grateful for this un-hoped for life.
At some point in the distant past I stumbled upon “if you can imagine it, you can create it.” I had been practicing that for years but unconsciously, and once I moved it into the conscious and intentional realm, the more real and realized it became. We should do a workshop sometime on “living the dream.”
Yes, we should!
As I’ve said before once I began saying Yes to life…the life I was given was beyond my imagination.
Reminds me of Viktor Frankl’s “Yes to Life, In Spite of Everything.”