And So It Goes...
"People will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time they will pick themselves up and continue on." -- Winston Churchill
We are on the verge of a new year. 2006 is just around the corner, about three days away. It's time we started our list of resolutions, you know, the promises we make to ourselves and break a week later. I think I'm going to make one this year and try like the dickens to hold to it. I'm going to grasp on to hope. It is a concept that eluded a lot of people this year. Those in the path of Katrina and Rita, so many in Africa, in Iraq. And how many others spread around the world. A friend of mine told me once that, it's not that so many are poor or ill or under nourished that causes them such grief. It's not their lack of education. It is, instead, that lack of hope. For without hope they have no purpose. They have no reason. We see this so evidently in our own cities and towns. Impoverished youth with no hope to achieve any thing more than what they have and so turn to lives of crime. What have they to lose? People in third world countries dying of AIDS with no hope of medication and so sit and wait to die. How many young people take their lives every year because they have no hope? Far too many. This coming year, I will hold on to Hope.
Happy New Year, and a Hopeful 2006
Chuck
We are on the verge of a new year. 2006 is just around the corner, about three days away. It's time we started our list of resolutions, you know, the promises we make to ourselves and break a week later. I think I'm going to make one this year and try like the dickens to hold to it. I'm going to grasp on to hope. It is a concept that eluded a lot of people this year. Those in the path of Katrina and Rita, so many in Africa, in Iraq. And how many others spread around the world. A friend of mine told me once that, it's not that so many are poor or ill or under nourished that causes them such grief. It's not their lack of education. It is, instead, that lack of hope. For without hope they have no purpose. They have no reason. We see this so evidently in our own cities and towns. Impoverished youth with no hope to achieve any thing more than what they have and so turn to lives of crime. What have they to lose? People in third world countries dying of AIDS with no hope of medication and so sit and wait to die. How many young people take their lives every year because they have no hope? Far too many. This coming year, I will hold on to Hope.
Happy New Year, and a Hopeful 2006
Chuck
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