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The power of hope

In my view, the gift of hope is the greatest gift mankind has with it. Every achievement no matter how small starts with this ability of ours - hope. And from hope arises the second gift we have - trust

It's a combination of hope and trust that actually runs this world. When we get into a plane and are flying in the air with no safety net whatsoever, hope that we will be safe and the trust that a few of our species namely the engineers and pilots and even the person filling the fuel in the aircraft have done their best. We trust their ability to take care of us. The pilots do the same with pharmacists who design pills that we eat without thinking if we will be alive. Because we hope that we will get well and we trust our fellow humans.

Name a profession, and we are bound by an unseen contract of hope and trust with humanity. The army, the farmers, the barbers, the bakers, the teachers, the nurses....the list is endless but yet the hope and trust is what we really buy in return for our hard earned money.

So how do we protect these two gifts in these times of peril? How can we hope that even if times in the future are going to be bad, even if there will be troubles, we will emerge stronger through the power of hope and trust.

I think meditation and gratitude can help immensely. The assurance that there is a power somewhere, whom I can't see hear or touch but I can feel it's presence, will take care of me the way it has for so many thousand years. That power, who gives me power and takes from me, and can control me though I can't control it, will help me evolve to the next level of my existence.

So, in these times, when we are struggling to find answers, when we are struggling to hope and trust, we must reinforce our faith in us. We are all we have, guided by the invisible and untrollable powers. 

Let's surrender each other to each other. Let's leave petty concerns and let's think of the greater good and of things bigger than each one of us. May be then in that magnanimity we will find our answers and be blessed with our blessings of hope and trust again.

Amen!


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