Adam Cunningham

We live in a messed up world!! And with each passing day, our surroundings get worse and worse! Sometimes our only refuge is our ability to block out the negativity!!! We see it unceasingly, yet we don't really SEE it!! We see its destruction! We see it's effects on our minds! We feel it's effects to our spirit!! But only when we can put on horse blinders and focus on the things that bring us hope, only when we are able to look forward without looking back can we truly escape its clutch on us!!! We are weak, Christians here would say but He is strong! Those that don't believe would substitute "He" with something else that brings them hope! And only those that truly feel they have no hope left are unsusceptible to the torture this world brings!! We are all birds in a box! But a bird, like many other simple creatures, knows nothing other than the hope of flying in the sky, landing on the perfect tree, finding the tastiest worm! So even when you put a bird in a box, you can't take away its hope! You in fact strengthen its hope because you eliminate all distractions! You take away the negativity! When we are faced with the turbulence of this life, the fears we hold and the doubt of facing the unknown, like becoming a parent or specifically a mother for the first time, we have to look ahead and see the light at the end of the tunnel, because when we allow the darkness that surrounds us to overcome, we cave and fall victim to hopelessness!