Expectations

Expectation is Hope Alive. That means when you are not being expectant you are hopeless and when you are hopeless you are helpless. This is because whatever you don't expect, you can't experience. The door doesn't close on a man with expectations. Know that things expected have not happened does not mean they will not happen, delay is not denial.

A soldier loses a battle yet fights again.
A football team loses in matches yet plays again.
What about boxers? They have comebacks.

When you look back and it seems there's nothing good the year has brought for you, encourage yourself for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

TRAPPED

Our hearts are like the ocean blue enclosing life's ordeal in bubbles of reality – love, laughter, difficulties, worry, fear...

Faced with the latter more often than naught; we are left with one decision - which bubble stays but as difficult as it may seem, it's our choice to make.

Hope, like a bruised reed may seem frail but it's hard to kill as the presence of life is the currency for hope.

If you lose hope, you've lost everything as there's hope for a tree if cut down, at the scent of water, it will bud again.

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9 Secrets from a 73-Year Marriage

 After 73 years of marriage, 94-year old Barbara Cooper knows how to get through matrimony's rough patches. The author of Fall in Love for Life shares her hard-earned wisdom. By Holly Corbett, REDBOOK.

On making time to make love
"I don't understand couples who say they are too busy or too tired to sleep together. Unless they are building roads all day or running a multi-national corporation, I expect they have just lost sight of priorities. If you wish to stay connected and happy in your marriage, my advice to you is to never be too tired or too busy to feel love for your partner. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love."