Read This Before You Sleep — Especially If You Need Hope

You do not need to have an imagination for that impossible thing to change. You know, that thing you actually kinda wish you’d stop hoping for, because it just seems completely out of the realm of possibility, not to mention that you’re weary of how longing for it to change at all just kinda makes your heart hurt-ache.  I tell myself this at 3 am, when I am laying in bed, and all the neurons of my mind are knot- tangled around some mess of a problem. After I’ve already gotten up for a glass of water, startled the dog who now keeps circling her bed basket, trying out an array of different contorted positions, and is now a middle-of-the-night reflection of my circling, restless mind.  After I’ve turned my pillow over again… I tell myself again:   You do not need to have an imagination for all the cascading dominoes that would have to miraculously happen so change could happen, so that the unlikely things would finally tip, and the whole landscape would shift, and you’d finally find yourself standing slack-jawed in a place you love, hugging someone you love with stunned, awed relief.  Abraham couldn’t imagine the way the […]