Behind all the stories
  of grief, estrangement, alienation
  separation and longing:
  is a question of faith.

  It affords you the ability
  to massage your pain
  to pour cold water over your anger
  to paint a fairy tale on your regrets
  to cloud your face with a big smile
  when you are lonely
  and losing everything that is near and dear
  and you just want to scream and cry.

  Yes!  you can scream
  Yes! you can cry.

  It is a question of faith
  it affords you the ability to see:

  where there is grief
  there is also relief
  where there is sadness
  there is also joy
  where there is worry
  there is also hope.

  We each can become the instrument
  through which grief is turn to relief

  We each can become the instrument
  through which sadness is turn to joy

  We each can become the instrument
  through which worry is turn to hope.

  For this reason, each and everyday
  someone will make someone else happy;
 

  For this reason, each and everyday

  someone will make someone else realise a dream;
 

  For this reason, each and everyday

  someone will make someone else's life easier.

 

  And that someone is you.

  And that someone is a family member.

  And that someone is a friend.

  And that someone is a cause.

 And that someone is a community.

 And that someone is a nation.

 

 When all circumstances point to the contrary

 we always can find the rationale

 to give up ourselves so that others can be.

 

No matter how long it may take

with faith as a chain of hope

its flames burning in our hearts

that lost dream may be found.   

 

That yearning emptiness may be fulfilled.

That elusive peace of mind will finally be yours.

 

 And it will also be mine too.  

  Rene