InstaAdvent 13 :: Hope

This prompt was easy because Hope is my word for 2014

and this necklace has been around my neck a lot in the last year.

I treasure it's quiet reminder to practice hope.

As I've said before, 

it was quite a surprise to find Hope

snuggled up next to me, 

asking if she might travel with me for awhile,

because

I had pretty much discarded her

a very long time ago.

Smiling softly 

because her first lesson to me this year

was the reason I felt 

so very disappointed in her

was because I had been placing my hope

in the wrong

(and untrustworthy)

places.

When I place my Hope 

in the right places,

Grace,

for example,

I can trust 

that things will all work out in the end.

Even when it may not feel like it in this moment

(or even the next).

.    *    .

Smiling softly

because it only occurred to me in the last week 

to add Moma's 3 little bells to my necklace of Hope.

I'm liking it very much.

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