{"id":2110,"date":"2018-06-27T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:35:32","slug":"the-list-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-list-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The List of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/picography-Schiller-Monument-Konzerthaus-steps-Berlin-sm-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/picography-Schiller-Monument-Konzerthaus-steps-Berlin-sm-1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/picography-Schiller-Monument-Konzerthaus-steps-Berlin-sm-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/picography-Schiller-Monument-Konzerthaus-steps-Berlin-sm-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/picography-Schiller-Monument-Konzerthaus-steps-Berlin-sm-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever created a list of hope? I think everyone has at one time or another. Even if you didn&#8217;t write it down, you probably held it in your head. As with every list, there is the potential for losing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>You don&#8217;t want to lose the list of hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The importance of hope is an obvious one. Hope is to the human being, what gas or electricity is to a car. You need it to get to where you&#8217;re going. Hope is a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, a star in a dark night sky. I know you understand this.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has heard and read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/the-insider\/anthony-bourdain-suicide-charities-20180625.html?amphtml=y\">stories<\/a> of late. The ones of people who couldn&#8217;t fend off the despair. If you find yourself in that place <a href=\"https:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/contact-the-lifeline\/\">reach out<\/a> for help. My post is <strong>not my attempt to solve<\/strong> the issue of suicide or give insights into its roots. I want to start in a place where losing hope can be all too common. The place is where things are somewhat stable to good. Regardless of where you may find yourself, I want to give some encouragement around the list of hope.<\/p>\n<p>I have a list that looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have friends and family who value and love me, therefore I have hope<\/li>\n<li>God has expressed his love for me multiple times (circumstances, conversations with loved ones, times of meditation), therefore I have hope<\/li>\n<li>I have built business relationships that go deeper than a transaction, therefore I have hope<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve dealt with great difficulties and come out on the other side better, therefore I have hope<\/li>\n<li>I look at nature and see its resilience and order, therefore I have hope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your list can look like mine or something radically different. The key is creating the list. In the words of the writer:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Peart\">Neil Peart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My reasons for having the list of hope is having a document I can go to when I lose hope. The list is something tangible to remind me of what&#8217;s important. There are times (reoccurring) when I need to pull this list out to refresh, reframe and keep going.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here if you need me, reach out if I can help in a bigger way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever created a list of hope? I think everyone has at one time or another. Even if you didn&#8217;t write it down, you probably held it in your head. As with every list, there is the potential for losing it. You don&#8217;t want to lose the list of hope. The importance of hope is an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1856,1907],"tags":[823,180,147,1947,544,58,1948],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-life-management","category-well-being","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-hope","tag-list-of-hope","tag-lists","tag-neil-peart","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}