Hope

Hope. Are you there? Can you hear me? The idea of you has me perplexed. How can we be friends if we’ve never met? People talk about you as if you are someone we all know, and yet hopelessness is all around.  I’m told your heart is for me but I often feel forgotten about.  Hope where are? Who are you? 

Hope. How do you speak to her? Is she a friend you’ve known your whole life or is she simply the check out lady at the local supermarket? Do you wander through the woods looking for her or is she the dove cooing at sunrise on the back porch? Do you sleep next to her or is she only let in when she gives you what you want? Is she the one in charge or is she waiting in the unemployment line? Is she the first one to show up or the last one to leave? Does she laugh when she is scared or cry when she laughs? Who is this mystery woman?

I have often been perplexed by her… She in the one everyone talked about with such conviction. She is easy to access and yet not easy. She doesn’t have a phone number and is waiting for marriage. She is not a one night stand but the one you marry. She is committed and honoring and yet rowdy and unpredictable.

Hope simply reveals what is already there and offers something better.  

She has an undeniable influence that will leave you feeling full and able to love.  She provides you with the opportunity to contemplate what it is you really want and then turns around and instills courage to take action in getting it. She ignites an unwavering desire deep in the bones that leaves you more present and engaged in life.  She erects a posture of confidence and stimulates deep trust in self. She removes any guarantee and only lets truth in. Hope is the posture of desire. Hope is your conversation with the future. A conversation you, have to start.

Is she to be trusted? That is a choice most struggle with. They confuse wishing with hoping. They do nothing because they are waiting for the wish to come true. Here’s the thing, Hope, she is life. Things in life disappoint, but hope, no, she doesn’t disappoint. She keeps you engaged even when you feel like giving up. 

Hope is to desire. To feel the expectation of wanting something to happen. Hope is your superpower.  

If you want to get to know hope better, you must spend time with her. Learning to trust the desire in your heart and to open it up to the possibility of good. Hope is not blind to the reality of how long you’ve been waiting… She is well aware of how long you’ve been waiting. She is not making you wait, she is with you while you are…

Who is Hope to you?

I hope ;) you enjoyed this as much as I did!

Much love,

Shantell