Thanksgiving Hope

Wishing you hope on this Thanksgiving Day

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
– Thomas Fuller.

It’s Thanksgiving Day. What are you thankful for this year? Looking back at the past year, I’m most thankful for one thing I will take with me into the next year. You can take it with you as well. No one can take it from you unless you let them.

Maybe your year has been difficult and full of events you never anticipated, like mine. Maybe you aren’t entirely convinced that the future holds great things for you personally or for the world at large. Maybe you are alone on this Thanksgiving or missing someone dear to you.

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The world may not be the way we thought it would be. Our lives rarely turn out the way we plan. Our choices may have taken us down a darker path than we expected. Things may not look good at all right now.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Things can change rapidly. No one knows where you and I will be next year on this day. This Thanksgiving, I am asking you to hold on to hope for the future. I’m holding on tight. I’m going to wrap my hope around me like a cozy blanket this winter. My hope will help me weather the relentless storms of life.

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank.

So today, while you are busy giving thanks for the good things in your life (there has to be at least of few), hold on to hope for all that is wrong, that it will be made right. It is my belief that hope, true hope, can get you through any crisis you are facing.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

On behalf of the families here at Peachy Green, I wish you and yours a very happy, hopeful and peachy Thanksgiving Day!

Just in case all my sappy chatter has left you thinking that I am in need of a sense of humor instead of all that Thanksgiving hope, here’s a fun little Thanksgiving video to make you smile, starring Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal:

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and thank you for reading Peachy Green!