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Harvesting Hope

Harvest time or fall in general, is one of my favorite times of year. In order to harvest, you have to plant and water and nurture the crops before you could have a chance to harvest them. The same is true for us in our personal lives. Our lives tend to be cycles of planting, watering, nurturing and harvesting. Harvesting in my personal life is when I take stock in the progress and growth I have made in my life, or some aspect of my life, and harvest the reward produced by discipline and hard work. Sometimes that reward is a dinner out. Other times it can be small or large things that I find to be that rewarded. Truly, harvesting is reaping the rewards of the actions you have taken previously. Harvesting also sets us up to thrive in the winter months ahead. For me it also is the fuel for the light of hope for ongoing progress and growth in the cycle ahead. Hope is an easy thing to lose when we are faced with difficulties in our lives. Hope is also easy to take for granted when things are going well. I certainly have done both. As I write to you all I wonder what hope really is, and how do we harvest it. Hope seems to be an emotion that looks forward to things to come.  We hope that things will get better regardless of where we are. We hope for better weather, we hope that our children will be safe, we hope for peace in our lives and more. Usually hope is connected to things that are out of our control. So therefore, we only have control over how we react, or come, to these events. Hope, then, is the seed that is planted. Dreams are the water we put on hope that bring it to life. Vision and planning are the nurturing we do to act on bringing our hopes to full bloom. Harvesting is taking the rewards of a job well done. For us at the Ohio Masonic Home, we harvest the hopes of all of you for a healthy and respectful aging process when we provide the best care and services and support possible. Thank you for all of your hopes and support as we water,  nurture and bring to full bloom your hopes for your life, so that together we can harvest the crop of the values of this great Fraternity.

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