While Hoping for a Cure

Below are some of the hopes that participants at a "Diabetic Peer Support Hope Retreat" named after participating in hope activities. I wanted to share them with you because on the first night together the theme centered around hopes for a cure. By the third day together, the participants' hopes had shifted and that elevated my hope. When I saw them at a follow-up session, three weeks later, the first thing I heard one participant say to another was, "Do you want to walk with me three times a week at the mall?" Another participant shared what he has been collecting in his hope bag since we last met. 

- I hope I will be more knowledgeable for tomorrow.

- I hope we'll understand each other better.

- I hope I can keep my eyesight.

- I hope we can help the Youth Diabetic Prevention Project.

- I hope I can control my cholesterol and blood pressure in choosing foods more closely in my diet.

- I hope I can understand more about diabetes and hope that someday there will be a cure.

- I hope I will live better.

- I hope I am becoming a healthy person to help others.

- I hope I can control my blood sugar level by exercising and sticking to healthy foods.

- I hope I will feel better about myself.

- I hope I exercise three times this week.

- I hope I will see some changes in the near future.

- I hope I can learn more about diabetes and practice caution.

Hope Notes

I found this quote while reading about the importance of stories as a way to find meaning in our lives ~ 

"Hope is born while facing the unknown and discovering that one is not alone."

Need I say more?

(Austin MacCurtain, in a review of John Updike's Self-Consciousness that appeared in The [London] Times Literary Supplement,as quoted by Martin Marty in Context 21:15 (15 August 1989), p. 3.