We all experience negative emotions and circumstances in our lives. However, we can still find peace and hope in the mist of those events and feelings.  How? We need to learn how to respond rather than react.  We need to learn that our feelings are information for us to use as data so we can make decisions about how and what to do.  Most of us just react as if those feelings are telling us something real, instead of those feelings are giving us information about how we can choose to respond.