Tag: Hope
A New Year Is Upon Us…
We can only hope we learn something as each year goes by.
We age, of course, look for answers, seek wisdom, work, strive…
To be happy, healthy, and whole.
We want what’s best for our family and friends, truth be told.
We look to the past to plan for the coming days,
Not knowing how things can change in a thousand ways.
We want things to get better; we want to achieve great dreams…
But we can’t see the future or rewrite the past, it seems.
So we’re left with hope, a positive outlook, and our beliefs
To bring us joy, accomplishment, relief.
My Pledge to Myself and Others …
My little pledge of hope…

Everyday
In some small way
I will reach out and touch someone
On a hunch … just for fun …
A little or a bunch …
To write, to care, to share, to dare
To uplift, to shift, to drift into a storm
Offering my loving thoughts and feelings warm …
Most of all, to understand, lend a hand, take a stand
There is nothing we cannot weather
If we band together in love and reverence
With respect, time to reflect, direct reference
To the joys of living, the acts of giving …
HOPE!
–Deborah A. Bowman
A Word of Encouragement…

Sometimes it seems the world has let us down…
We hear the nightly news and cry or frown…
Who has died today? Who has lied? Who has hurt another?
Isn’t there something else we can do, something other
Than tears and fears, fright and fight?
Look to the beauty of the heavens above
That have no boundaries to calm your mind…
There is still peace and love in our lives…
This is what we must strive to release…
Pray for Peace…