Feb 19 2009
HOW HOPE LEADS TO A NEW DESTINY
The only thing I know, above and beyond anything else, is the fact that hope floats. The next thing I know about hope is the fact that we have to hold it close. Otherwise, it fades away like a cloud that comes and goes. Because that’s true, when you hold onto hope, you’ll float above and beyond the stuff that holds you back. You’ll see beyond the strife that makes others fight with an endless list of wars and political debates, to a new and improved way to make everyone win in the end. Then again, I know from my own experience that, in fact, having hope as your guide through life will move you beyond simply surviving any disease or catastrophe, and hope can take you to a place where you remain abundantly blessed with peace of mind at any given time. In fact, having hope is why I moved beyond simply surviving an incurable disease to become not only cancer free, but completely victim free, so if even I can hold onto hope, we can assume that you can too. Still, it’s up to you and no one can make you look through a hopeful view. Sometimes it comes through a dark and hard time or two, but when the fog lifts, hope looks like the miracle it is.It seems to me that hope derives from the back of our minds where wishful thinking resides. For me, there are too many wishes to choose from, and since wishes have to grow into hope to become true, we need to pick which wish we want to hold and grow into hope from those we need to let go. From there, and with the clutter removed, hope makes us aware of the list of endless possibilities. That’s why having hope is great. Besides, it’s a lot more fun to float on hope than it is to simply exist within what you survive with a sense of doom and gloom. Those who float on hope know the fact that It takes hope to find the faith it takes to receive what we hope to achieve, but that’s when the problem with hope comes in, at least now and then.
When it comes to faith, too many of us become afraid. That’s when hope fades back again and remains locked in the back of our minds where wishful thinking resides. There, hope hides. What might have been our saving grace becomes useless to you and in fact to mankind too. That’s when some become and remain the same old, hopeless souls who make the hope of you and I fade, and after that, their fear based way to communicate may even take our faith away.
After all, the fate of hate comes from what makes those hopeless souls afraid, and with a fearful view, fear blinds our eyes, so hope hides in the back of our closed minds, sometimes for decades of time. That’s why the key to receiving what we hope to achieve is to float on hope so that we can see beyond what makes us afraid. When it comes to faith, we have to move beyond simply surviving. Otherwise, the monsters we create will bite our behinds all the time, just to keep you racing away from hope and faith. That’s why holding onto hope will be the key to being free from the prison of hate that fear creates. On the other side of fear is where every hope, dream and wish exists. That’s where it’s real and we can achieve what would otherwise seem to be the impossible dream of wishful thinking. That’s why hope has to grow from you to me and then, back to you again.
Like a cloud, hope floats above the stuff that makes us afraid. That stuff might be fear of success or fear of failure too. It might be a new view you’ve been afraid to look through. The stuff that holds you back could be all those things you’ve been too chicken to do, but the fact remains that when you float on hope, you’ll see what sits beyond the mountain of fearful stuff from a distance. Still, we have to have hope before we can float above and beyond it all to see the possibilities that make faith easy to find. Besides, with hope mixed in a bit of faith, our dreams seem more easily achieved, but we have to be brave to hold onto hope that grows and floats. With the courage it takes to go out on a limb and float on hope, we find the faith it takes to move beyond simply surviving the strife of fights, debates, endless wars and more. In fact, President Barrack Obama wrote the book on what, “The Audacity of Hope,” can do to achieve impossible dreams. It means we can do anything. Then again, it also means we need to go out on a limb now and then to face what makes us afraid so that we can find the faith it takes to change. From there, the fact remains that if we dream of change, we must dare to do something different. It’s just what men who float on hope do, and women too.Having hope can lead us to improve our dreams into something new and improved. With hope in our mind, our eyes see through the vision of men like Martin Luther King who took his wishful thinking to beyond what hope floats above. There, from a distance, he found the faith it takes to actually see beyond the mountain top of hate, to a place where a black man became the President of the USA today. Through his view of hope and faith, he was given the amazing grace it takes to change one mind at a time, so that we could change our ways into a new and improved nation too. With the hope and faith it takes to change one mind at a time, he found the ability to believe in what he could not even see at that time.It’s that blind faith that, in fact, gave him the ability to see the day when his children would no longer be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. Hope gave him the ability to see these facts long before they, in fact, arrived. The facts remain the same today. Hope and faith can part the sea and build a bridge to gap the facts of the past to a new and improved USA today. Hope will take you to the faith it takes to move a mountain or two if that’s what you need to do.
In fact, the hope of Martin Luther King’s dream gave him the faith it takes to make the Civil Rights Act a fact back in 1964, in spite of the fact that it seemed to be an impossible dream in the 60’s. Even so, who knew what the fact of that act of hope and faith could do to achieve a black man’s impossible dream in 2008? Still, the fact remains that the hope of so long ago is why a black man is, in fact, the President of the USA today. With hope, we always see beyond what makes others afraid, to the endless possibilities that faith provides our lives. After that, the fact is that with hope and just a bit of faith, God always provides the amazing grace it takes to achieve impossible dreams. Who knows? If we choose to float on hope, we might even survive the worst economic demise of our lives. In fact, we can achieve impossible dreams, when we hold onto hope to find the faith it takes that we can move beyond simply surviving to achieving the American dream of our wildest dreams. We can even float on hope while those old hopeless souls remain imprisoned within the same old fearful thoughts that block their minds and blind their eyes to what hope provides. It’s a free country, after all. Thanks to Martin Luther King you can sit on any seat you please.All I know is that hope depends on you, so you must choose what you will do. You can choose to live within the hopelessness of doom and glom, or at best, wishful thinking and simply survive hard times, or you can float on hope to move beyond simply surviving, to achieving the peace of mind people like me receive all the time, in spite of hard times. You can use your right to free speech as an excuse to be rude and look through a view of doom and gloom, or you can communicate what you debate through a view of hope and faith to create what might be our saving grace.It’s up to you, but when you choose doom and gloom, that’s when we get into a race between two views. The choice you make will indicate which destiny you end up living within, and the truth is this: Hope floats within a clear sky, where the sun shines bright, so that those who hold onto hope can find the faith it takes to see with insight the endless possibilities that will be blinded from your view. Besides, hope floats with the speed of lightning sometimes, and that’s why those who float on hope always win in the end.
