Living in Hope

NO END TO POSSIBILITIES No one need lose heart in this world of God. However uncompromising circumstances may seem, they contain, the possibility of triumph for man. What one should do is seek out this possibility and use it to turn one’s defeat into victory. Just remember that every dark cloud has a silver lining. T he sun was setting in the west over the mountains. Half of the orb had already dipped beneath the ridge. In a few minutes, the whole sun disappeared behind the still glowing mountain range. Then darkness began to set in on all sides. The light of the sun was gradually receding, and it seemed as if the whole area would be plunged in pitch darkness. But just then, another light began to ascend. It was the full moon, ascending in the east as the sun was setting in the west. In a short while, the whole scene was lit up again. Not long after the eclipse of the sunlight, the earth was illuminated anew. “This is a sign of nature,” I thought to myself. “When one possibility ends, another begins. When the sun