This is a meditation and contemplation on the mystical divine view of hope.
We use this in week one of the Mystical Advent series and I invite you to return to it anytime you would like to be with hope.
Go ahead and find a comfortable position,
A place where you can feel your weight on the floor or resting on a chair.
As you begin to empty,
As you begin to let gravity take its form and release all that you are holding,
Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.
As you exhale and begin to shift from head to heart,
And as you begin to shift,
Feeling yourself open,
Feeling the thoughts of the day drip down your body into the earth or float away like clouds in the sky.
You are here in sacred presence,
You are here reconnecting to your divine essence in a place where each moment is holy.
This place that is always available to us,
All we need to do is connect through the heart space,
And in this heart space we begin to open,
We begin to be with this mystical idea of hope,
A hope that is not passive,
A hope that is filled with faith and trust.
Feeling yourself knowing that something is coming,
There is a new chapter,
There is light at the end of the tunnel,
And in this space we surrender and we prepare for what we know is ahead.
Hope is the seed of light planted within the soul,
Even in the midst of darkness.
It is that sacred energy that reminds us that we are never alone,
That divine wisdom and love are always present.
Hope invites us to hold space for what is not yet manifest,
Trusting that the divine is working in us and through us.
We are the vessels that get to bring through the energy to form,
And as we sit in hope we awaken to the light that is already within us.
Hope becomes a sacred thread,
Binding us to the rhythm of life,
Unfolding of the highest self,
It whispers,
The light is coming,
It always comes.
Just as the seasons change on this planet,
So do the seasons in our life,
And in this space I invite you to quiet down the mind,
To expand the heart,
To listen,
To receive,
To open to what is coming through.
Perhaps there is a hope for something to change in the near future,
Perhaps there is a hope for pain to be gone,
Or for pleasure to arrive.
In this space we reconnect with the divine,
We drop our mental ideas of what may be coming,
Of what we hope for,
And we connect to the unfolding.
We connect to the divine plan that is so much bigger and more beautiful than we could ever imagine,
And we open ourselves to this hope.
Open yourself,
Open your heart,
So that you can connect with what is already happening energetically in your life,
The shifts that are happening on your behalf.
Feel into what you already know,
Feel into who you get to be,
What you get to embody,
And as you continue to be in this space,
I invite you to continue to open,
To connect with that divine,
That connection that is always there.
Sometimes we just need to slow it down to be able to listen.
Continuing to breathe,
Continuing to listen,
And may you remain in this space for as long as you need,
Knowing it's a place you can always return to.
This hope,
This active preparation,
This faith,
This knowing.
