Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations.

To start the week off right, the phrase we're going to be meditating on is the hope that outlives disappointment.

Disappointment is tough.

It's really heavy.

No one likes to be disappointed.

I don't know one person that thrives off of disappointment, unless you're

turning it around in your head mentally and you're viewing it as fuel to better your circumstances

or what you're going through. But overall, no one enjoys going through disappointment. And we don't

always have a language for that kind of ache in your heart when it's super heavy,

that sting of a loss that you never fully are able to just let go of.

And it can even be an unanswered prayer that still haunts you in the quiet hours of the night.

And sometimes it's deeper than just sadness, and it's different than grief.

It's really hard to explain, but disappointment is bone deep, and sometimes it can be

unrelenting.

And in moments like those, the idea of hope can feel like a distant memory rather than a

present anchor, if you will. And we are often told,

you know, just stay strong, dig deeper, you got this, you know, use your inner strength as if

our own inner reserves are enough to carry us through the hardest moments of life. We know that

they aren't, but we're reminded of that from our external friends and family. But while resilience

has its place, the truth is there are valleys that are way too dark and losses that are way

too great for our quote unquote inner strength to be our answer. So where do we turn when both

our strength and our support system seems to fail us?

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