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We can face the sometimes harsh and difficult circumstances of our lives either with a sense of hope and great expectation or with a sense of despair accompanied by the feelings of dread and doom.
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Either way we will still have to face the harsh circumstances that are happening or will happen in our lives.
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Hope is a beneficial thing to have when faced with difficult situations; whereas despair is not.
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It does very little good to run back and forth in a state of panic with your hands waving over your head saying, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, every time you are faced with a difficult situation.
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Whereas, when we have hope we will not panic, but will proceed with laboring to overcome the problem.
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