In a time with so much uncertainty,
hope provides a bedrock.
It's what we reach for
when the ground beneath us shifts.
What we cling to in the dark.
Too many orient in the limitations of the mind.
Caught in the web of internal and external stories.
The narratives we tell ourselves,
about ourselves,
about what's possible.
Hope lives in the liminal of time and space.
In the threshold between what was and what's becoming.
Without it, we can falter easily into despair.
Yet, if we only orient from hope.
That's simply not enough.
What's really getting asked of us in this moment is deep and utter courage.
To meet this moment fully.
With reverence, with grace.
With eyes wide open.
Transforming hope,
into clear seeing,
empowered knowing.
Into embodied wisdom.
At its core,
hope provides a bridge
to understanding if we are operating from fear
or if we are operating from love.
This fundamental choice.
This essential question.
The more we can operate from love,
the more we can transcend our differences,
live in the land of the other, and ground into de-othering.
Into a deeper, intimate connection.
Into understanding that dissolves separation.
Hope is the shimmering light
illuminating the truth that if we heal ourselves,
we heal the world.
That the personal and collective are not two,
but one continuous fabric of becoming.
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