The second key to coming out of discouragement is what I call, having the Eyes of Hope. When you have the Eyes of Hope, you see possibilities in all situations. It doesn’t matter what happened or didn’t happen in some cases, you still see hope and that is where it begins.
There is a story of Thomas Edison, a very influential inventor. He’s the one who came up with the light bulb but what many people do not know about Him is that when he was young, there was a time when he came back from school with a letter in his hand for his mom from his teacher and his mom opened it and began to read it and as she was reading the letter, tears began to run down her cheeks and young Edison noticed and asked his mom what’s wrong.
His mom said, your teacher said that you are a genius, and she stopped crying and started laughing and said to him your teacher said that you are a genius and the school does not have enough resources or teachers that are good enough for you and that was that.
Sometime later in the future, he came across this same letter that was sent to his mom and what the letter actually read was ‘Thomas Edison is mentally ill so basically keep him away from the school and you carry on teaching him’. So that was what happened but the point is that history tells us that this little Edison who his teachers had written off, that he was mentally ill and was not basically fit to be in their school ended up becoming a genius and impacting the world for generations. The thing is that his mom had the Eyes of Hope. She refused to believe what the teachers of her son were saying about him, she refused to be discouraged or stay discouraged as a result of whatever it was that they were saying to her concerning her child.
My question now is, how many Thomas Edison has the world lost because they had parents who did not know how to come out of discouragement, parents who simply did not know how to have the Eyes of Hope. So imagine where the world would be if we had more parents who were basically like Thomas Edison’s Mom.
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