Looking for Hope?

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

― Mahmoud Darwish

Art is not useless, as some might say, cynically. Spiritually, I believe, it can serve the highest function, by reminding us of the Indestructible... in ourselves, the world and Beyond.

In today's reading, I explore the quiet heroism required to keep Hope alive in the face of life's inevitable trials. By contrast, despair is a form of short-sightedness, the way I see it. But, Hope is more patient than despair and outlasts it.

Hope requires courage and a kind of night-vision: seeing the light in the dark.

By trusting in life's abundant goodness, hope can be a testament of faith and spiritual practice.

Here's a poetry reading that I hope you find #motivational

Hope

Hope's not quite as it seems—
it’s slimmer than you’d think
and less steady on its Feet—

Sometimes, it’s out of breath
—can hardly see ahead
and cries itself to sleep—

It may not tell you all this—
or the times it cheated death
but—if you knew it—you’d know

—how hope can keep a secret!