what to do when hope wasts away like river in drought?

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what are some things to do when you're disabbointed, heartbroken, and hope is wasting away like a river in a drought?

I live along a river, have seen it in flood, have seen it low to wehre our water tastes like dirt.

My hope is low as dirt, will it come back up like the river has?
Has, so far.
Is there a time it won't ever come back up?
Is that my hope this time?

I don't know what to do - things are empty, people are empty, I am empty.

Look at an other river.

Lsten to uplifting music, get comfort from friends, be on wrongplanet

I guess one could write beautiful poetry like your statement or a book like Job.
Is there anything I can do for you and your wife?

The book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle has been helpful to me in many ways, including battling my depression.

I have just been reading Kathleen Norris' book "Acedia and me" about the spiritual malaise of acedia, spiritual torpor, when life looks like a vast and endless desert. It's a state well known by early monks... it pushes us away from the very things that would restore us. It's a rich opportunity to delve deeper, past the boredom and spiritual fatigue by doing the utterly ordinary and continuing to pray our lives regardless of the insidious voice within that tells us it's all pointless.

You might take a look at the book, and investigate what your own spiritual tradition--if you have one--says about this 'noonday demon'. You may have to get into some ancient texts to find the guidance that will genuinely help.

And welcome each new day, though the sun does not rise for you, it is still a wondrous thing.

Hey Y'all;

I'm back after going out to get a sandwich and hang out at the train store for a bit.

Water is out at our apartment - they're still working on finding the cause.

Will look up those books.
I like books.
Tend to go book shopping when stressed or down - train, boat, architecture, books.

just went out on balcony to try to fix paint flaw on train part I spray painted yesterday.

Leaned over balcony to visit a minute with old guy on ground floor other side of breezeway.

Is a gorgeous day here to have apartment windows and balcony door open.

It is rather sunnier outside than I am inside.