Quiet Desperation?

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."  Henry David Thoreau 

From Sparknotes.com:

“Desperation” is also a word with deep religious connotations, the “lack of hope” that, according to Dante (one of Thoreau’s favorite writers), was inscribed on the gates at hell’s entrance. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s Protestant spiritual classic and a bestseller in the New England of Thoreau’s day, features a hero who passes through a bleak lowland called the Slough of Despair on his way to meet God. By asserting that most humans have gotten stuck in despair, Thoreau is implying that they are unable to continue farther on their pilgrimage toward true redemption.

 *****

Are you living a life of quiet desperation?  Are you stuck in despair?  There is hope through the Lord.  Ask God to lift you out of the Slough of Despair and look for the answers that He shows you.  Reach up.  Take God's hand and let him pull you out of the slough.

TV~
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.  [Psalm 40:2]