Strengthen The Thin Thread of Hope

"I'm hanging in there by a thread!"
This familiar saying is often repeated by people who are nearly at the end of their ability to cope with the emotional strain of stress. It usually means that the weight of stress will soon break that person's emotional control, or maybe it'll break the person himself. 
Let's be honest: we've all been there at some point, and we'd all agree that a thread is a very thin connection to put much weight on.
But sometimes a thread is all you need.
Take, for instance, a thread of hope. This thread is sometimes so thin it can't be seen. Sometimes it's so impossibly thin the naysayers would tell you it's not there at all and that you're foolish to believe it is. Some would even swipe at that thin lifeline of hope just to break your resolve in its potential. After all, who are you to hold onto hope when your hope is contrary to the will of those same naysayers?
Yet, a thread, no matter how thin it is and no matter how foolish it may seem to believe in, is sometimes all it takes to give one strength to hang on for one more day. It might be all one needs to take a step in faith. It might be that very thin thread from which a beautiful and complex tapestry is contructed. But one must start with a thread. 
So maybe your situation looks impossible, and you are tired of hanging on to that thin thread of hope, but until "looks impossible" becomes "is impossible," keep holding on. Keep strengthening that thin thread of hope. Keep choosing to ignore those who would sever your hopeful thread and keep hanging on.