Codependency – Hope for a Better Day

Hope is all around you. You can find it in nature, in a child’s laugh, a visit with a friend. Hope is sustaining, it helps to get you through another day. Sometimes it feels like you are clinging to hope like a lifeboat, adrift in a sea of guilt and despair.

Occasionally, you will run across something that clicks right at that moment. It is just like someone is speaking to you, sending you a message. They are the words you need to hear – right then.

This saying is one of those things. I found it in a stack of handouts at a support group I attended. It spoke to me then, and it still does now. I hope it can help you.

God’s Answer

I asked you, God for strength that I might achieve;

I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked for help that I might do greater things;

I was given infirmity that I might do better things.

I asked for riches that I might be happy;

I was given poverty that I might be wise.

I asked for power that I might have the praise of others;

I was given weakness that I might feel the need for you.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;

I was given life that I might enjoy all things.

No God, I’ve got nothing that I’ve asked for,

but everything I had hoped for.

Despite myself, my prayers were answers,

and I am among those most richly blessed.

Look back on your life.  Yes, there have been struggles – major ones even.  Yet, would you be the person you are today if you had not experienced life the way you did?  You are a stronger person because of where you have been and what life has given you.  You have a greater understanding of the trials others are going through -whatever they may be.  Because of that, you have compassion.  Because of your trials, you can give hope to someone else.

Life is good!  You have the power for peace and happiness within you.  Allow yourself to find it.  There is hope for a brighter day!