Message for 'all' peoples
Just a note on ‘hope’ . . .
As I write and bring through the messages that I receive, I am reminded of the energy of ‘hope’. I encountered this energy decades ago in its raw form. I came to a precipe where this energy no longer worked for me and I could not lean on it for assurance. Hope was a word that I did not want to hear because I had lost faith in its ability to be of any substance. What I did not realise at the time was that I was facing the type of hope that was taught to everyone that kept them believing and having faith, but not delivering on its presumed promise.
It was a very vulnerable time because I had to find a way through the spiritual challenges, and I could not ‘see’ how to proceed. We can feel overhwelmed and the need for the feeling of hope can make all the difference. The crashing of the energy of hope turned out to be a wonderful thing because it was a hope that was built on other people. It was an exterior ‘hope’ where I had to wait to be rescued, helped, or wait for someone else to lift me up out of the place that I was in.
Extending our hands for help is a good energy especially when we are learning to receive and to be humble, but when we have learnt how to do that, the next step is to learn about ‘hope’. This energy is linked to the future and its adversaries (not really) are anxiety and worry.
When the meaning of life seems to be dim and the desperate feeling of having a lack of purpose arrives at the door, it is usually when the light of the soul and the breath of the spirit has diminished. Soul is required for the joy of life to be at the forefront of all experiences, and hope is required for the right state of mind to create it. When these two energies synchronise, it is easy to give generously and to anticipate a future worth living.
When we enter the desperation of a subdued soul and dim spirit, hope dies and joy disappears. In their place comes the fear of the future and its companions; worry and anxiety. We cannot afford to de-evaluate soul and spirit . . . even when life gets tough! The only after-effect of this is that we spend our time hoping someone will save us, or that someone will come to the rescue, and this becomes a hope that has no feelings of joy.
It is a state of mind that paralyses - this kind of hope - because it leaves us personally powerless. When we can see extactly where we are and we can open ourselves to the bigger picture, then we can begin to build the joy and hope for the future. Living in the moment towards that bigger picture is what ignites the correct kind of hope - the one where we feel powerful, worthy, loved and excited about what is to come.
Hope is a state of mind that involves the soul and spirit, the expansiveness of All That Is, and welcomes the arrival of joy. It does not involve looking to others to rescue us and be our saviours . . . it means that we have enough anticipation and expectations for our own future, that it has no choice but to present itself.
There are two hopes: There is the one that we have when we run out of options and there is the one that we have when we see all the options. One is limited and closed to ideas and is remarkably powerless; and the other is open to the expansiveness of what can come next and what is potentially possible.
Because hope is a state of mind, it takes but a moment to make up our mind about what we want to be and feel and to allow soul and spirit to manifest it for us.
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Hope has found its proper definition. Hooray and thank you for that.