Just as plants need the sun to shine on them, we need hope to shine on us. Hope gives us the strength to make it through the toughest times because it infuses us with the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. In my experience, and it’s all based on hindsight, tomorrow (figuratively speaking, it may be a week, or months, or years) is always better. Things work out if I keep working for things to work out. I like to have a hope-filled mind and two hands working 24/7. It’s a wonderful partnership. The Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”