Posts Tagged ‘Coping’

‘Tis the season for spending time with family and friends, for renewing acquaintances, for cookies and cocoa and Christmas stockings.

But for many people it’s a season to be reminded that you’ve lost loved ones with whom you once shared the holidays, another year has passed and your life isn’t where you’d hoped it would be, you’re unemployed or in debt and unable to shop with the abandon you’d like, or maybe you’re just lonely and depressed.

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Look at the bright side … this too shall pass … keep the faith.

I write a lot of articles about hanging in when life gets tough. Endurance is a gift. If you can just will yourself to outlast the pain, heartache, discouragement, loneliness, confusion, and grief life throws your way, eventually things will get better. Where there is life, there is hope.

Several years ago, I worked with a woman in her 40s who’d always wanted to find her soul mate. She finally met “Mr. Right,” the two were engaged to marry and planning their wedding … when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He left her to fight her cancer battle and die alone. A few days ago I learned of a similar situation, and it brought home the reality that some mountains cannot be moved and cannot be scaled. And some things will not get better in this lifetime. So how can you find comfort when all really is lost?

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