2024-11-07-Amanson on Hope

Session

Lesson

"Hope" is the extension of our faith, the bright light that drives it, lighting our way through the dark hours and passageways when our faith is proving slippery, difficult to keep hold of. Hope is an essential component in the everyday process of living for it keeps in trust the promise made in the earliest hours of your existence, a promise to provide a creative reason to carry on in the face of odds; odds, circumstances, that when viewed full flush are seen to be merely set-pieces, scenarios to bring to the fore the living secret of Hope.

Hope is not a far-fetched notion, a make-believe panacea, a (Holy) ghost story (how's that one?!) Hope is a realization born of actual living in the moment, a moment that gives birth to the next, then the next, all in a chain which, when viewed (lived) in Hope, provides both the culmination of, and the reason for, Hope.

Hope exists. It lives just out of reach, in hopes to extend your grasp, increase your reach. There are those who question the concept of hope; actual languages that have no word for 'hope'; but it is a palpable light when looked for.

Hope exists in the human heart as a sort of music, distant, one to be listened for in quiet; for in a battle with conflicting sources it too often cannot be heard over the din. It must be found out and acknowledged. And to the mind, Hope is the next step, the next placement of the intellectual footfall, for it brings energy and spirit to an otherwise depleted or confused thinking.

Hope has no baggage. It is pure, it is ever-fresh, and it, as they say, 'springs eternal'. And why is that? Because it is a ray of God, of pure Creation, an aspect of Creation (a circuit, as you say) that can be tapped into and brought to bear on whatever future you face. It is not something imported from outside, it dwells within any given situation as certainly as any of the more immediately apparent or tangible aspects of the challenge being faced.

But it is not often seen this way. Hope can seem a product of the imagination, a prayed-for, last-minute kind of thing. The cavalry riding in for the rescue as in the movies. No. Hope is a light encircling your problem, the dark of which was designed to help you to see, to learn of the light surrounding it. In other words, all the fractures you face are designed for the very purpose of teaching you to recognize -- and implement -- Hope.

Learn to see. Hope is hiding in plain sight. Divine it. Literally.