So very sad. These dark nights seem so long. And hope takes on a different light - not at all what we 'hoped' for. You are in my prayers, ...

Those words "hope takes on a different light - not at all what we 'hoped' for" spoke and speaks to my heart. I had never heard such a way of presenting what appeared to me a hopeful paradox. Hope still, but not anything like I had hoped for... - the loss of what we hoped for, and maybe God hoped for us too, can be lost; but the loss can be, not a loss of hope, but hope in a new light; a reforming of the same dream into a new dream, even better dream. Yes, - a light better than the best of the best of the past light, a dream more splendorous than the most splendorous splendor you anticipated before. Nightmares are sometimes only a brief interlude to an epiphany you never dreamed your eyes could see or dared your eyes to see... - "No, not in this life, not my life. Too good to be true, at least for me." Hum... Yea? Are you sure? Too good to be true for you?