The following is from a book written in 1907 by Hope Lawrence. Despite many years dealing with physical illnesses, and finally being restored to health, Hope Lawrence wrote this as a letter to a friend and never expected it to be published. The book is called A Letter of Hope. Heres an excerpt: One experience of my life before I was sick helped me much in hours of depression, for I have had hours when I was immensely depressed; only I could always feel the sun shining behind the cloud, and the thoughts and impulses never came into the real ego. I suppose few women ever went down into a mine. I did once and into a shaft where you had to descend and ascend by ladders. As we were returning to the surface my companion said, Wait a minute on this round, stand firm and twist your arms about this round so and hold fast, and then throw your head back a little, think of nothing else but look up. I am going to put out the lantern; which he did before I could remonstrate, and such a blackness I never imagined. I looked up and there was the evening star shining with such brilliancy and power straight down into the mouth of the shaft that I could not utter a word or think of anything else. He lighted the lantern at last and we climbed to the surface in silence. Was he not wise not to say or suggest anything to my mind about the abyss that yawned below me? That evening star has always had new power and meaning to me ever since I saw it from the depth. And so, after our sickness and periods of depression, the stars of faith and hope that shine through.
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