One thing we almost always have is hope!
It's not about what happens to you, but your perception of it.
The kingdom of heaven is inside you!
great teachers have taught us this and then the fear-based religions came along and taught us their separation of the divine.
Deep within you there is a quiet country no map has ever drawn. It does not shout, argue, threaten, or demand belief. It simply waits — patient as sunrise. Beneath the noise of worries, beneath the old fears taught by others, there lives a gentle awareness that has never been wounded. This is the Kingdom of Heaven within, not a distant place but a living presence.
When you grow still, you feel it: a warmth without fire, a light without eyes, a peace that asks nothing. In that silent center you are already accepted, already whole, already home. You do not enter it. You remember it.