by Ashley Logsdon

Feeling Hopeless?

What is your bright light? This past year has been rough.  Unfortunately, it’s not just been something in my world.  The number of people who have experienced major losses, depression, and overall life upheaval this last year was more than just those around me.  We are experiencing some major growing pains as a culture, and there have been a lot of worlds that have been turned upside down.  In the past two weeks with my work, I’ve been inundated with emails from poor souls who don’t have any passion in their lives, or don’t know how to dream. How did we all become stuck in a world with no hope?   It got me thinking yet again about the power of positive thinking.The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Do we really have no hope, or is the problem in our own perspective?

Life balance is teetering on a tightrope of work, work, work in our society. We get caught up in doing all the time and sooner or later, the day has flown by and it’s merely been a day of survival. Community gets thrown by the wayside as we hurry to get our errands run, our chores done, and the bills paid. When we get together with friends, our talks quickly go to the long list of “to-dos” and becomes a competition on who has put more hours in at work, or has the wildest child, or anything else that puts us in the martyr role.

Our tunnel of work becomes so long that all we see are the dark items on each side—we lose sight of our “bright light” at the end—the reasons we do what we do.   What is the goal of making money? What is the goal of buying groceries? Working? Carting kids to events? Lugging the whole family to church or whatever community you have established?

Isn’t it all to achieve a better, more fulfilling life?

Isn’t it all to embrace the “bright light” in all of our lives?

Our children, our spouses, our friends, our parents…the music we love, the nature we relish, the time spent learning about new places, people and causes… don’t we all have something to be thankful for?

When you look outside your window and see the green leaves and the buds blooming, how can you say there is no hope? Even the plants are excited about the new day. When you are surrounded by negativity, your tunnel gets longer and longer as your bright light of hope gets muddied in the mess. But remember, no matter where you are, there are rays of sunshine peeking through, both figuratively and literally. Take the time to notice them. Embrace each bright light in your life, no matter how small…you’ll find the more you notice them, the brighter those lights become.

Spring rains will come again

 

About the author, Ashley Logsdon

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Ashley Logsdon is a Family and Personality Styles Coach and Lifelong Learner. She and her husband Nathan are RVing the States and unschooling their 3 girls. Her mission is to shift the mindsets of families from reaction to intention, and guide them in creating the family they love coming home to. Looking deeper than the surface, we assess the strengths, triggers, and simplifying your lifestyle so you truly recognize how the uniqueness in each of us strengthens all of us.

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  1. Ashley – very timely and encouraging post. Yes, 2015 was a difficult year in many ways for so many people, myself included. But you are right – we have to keep our perspective right and our eyes open to see the little signs of hope all around us. There is always hope as long as we are breathing.

  2. Oh gosh, Ashley, you know how deeply this resonates with me! My “Life Uncluttered” mission has been picking up more steam as I observe the same thing you see….hopeless people, slogging through the day. Is it Friday yet?
    The answers are already within us and yes, right outside the window where that leaf is unfurling. Wonderful thoughts…

    Thanks!

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