Jody is right,hope is essential in a disease like CFS because without it there is only despondency.
A sense of humour helps as well, thats why I collect jokes. :Retro smile:l
If somebody had told me when I first went down with CFS that I would still not be back to being 100% after 20 years then I would have despaired, but the constant hope and faith in God has kept me still hoping(and praying ),that some day there will be a complete answer to this horrible disease and future generations will not have to go through what we are going through.
So its good to hope ....and hope has a couple of cousins..... Faith and Love ....and when you mix em all together you've got the perfect combination, as St Paul so ably put it.
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians13.htm
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.