What is hope?
It is expecting our future to be better than our today.
Expecting it to all work out,
And knowing that we can handle it.
But when we are without hope,
We can't focus.
We feel overwhelmed.
We believe that we are broken,
With no way out.
No inner compass.
No idea where to go,
And no ability to set goals,
Or dream dreams,
Or follow them.
We feel paralysed by our anxieties.
And what is faith?
The conviction,
The knowledge,
The belief that we are okay.
That the world is okay.
That God has our backs,
And that we are on the right path,
And have purpose in our lives.
When we have an idea,
Guidance,
Or intuitions,
Faith is the belief that it's a good idea for us to follow it.
Without faith,
We have no idea what to believe about life.
Without faith,
We deflect our intuitions.
We don't trust ourselves.
We steer away shut down,
And fall out of touch.
We don't believe that we can take the actions that are necessary to change our futures.
We don't feel that we can cope.
We feel depressed,
Fearful,
And we don't know how to process our traumas and our griefs.
We don't know how to proceed.
And love?
And what is love?
It's the only thing that is truly real.
It is a power in and of itself.
Life force and compassion,
And doing the right thing.
Healing and helping others.
The only thing that really matters.
Love is not romance,
But it's the kindness that sits within all of us,
That makes us want to share our lives with one another in the first place.
Love is a lifestyle,
An attitude,
The way we approach ourselves,
The world,
Ideas,
Learning,
Work,
And all relationships.
Love is the reason to live.
It gives us gratitude and everything worth doing.
When we turn inwards,
To love,
And not away.
When we face the resistance,
The procrastination,
Then the grief,
Fear,
And emptiness.
When we face it all,
When we sit with it.
And under all of it,
We find love.
Love is what our hearts are.
Love is what we are.
And without love,
We have no reason to be here.
When we live in love,
We are mindful.
In flow,
We are in our bodies,
Embodying our creativity.
With love,
We are connected,
As all the answers are with us in the present moment.
But if we have love,
But no hope or faith,
We're lost.
To live our best lives,
We need all three.
Hope,
Faith,
And love.
Love is the greatest,
But it doesn't want to be alone.
It can't be alone.
So let's vow together to cultivate them all.
This will be the beginning of acceptance and enlightenment.
Day to day.
Moment to moment.
Right now.
