Abandon your thoughts of thoughts or feelings,
the moods that come and go.
Hope is a practice, an act you can do
even as you mourn, or regret, or dread.
Hope is an act of trust, regardless
of what the future may hold,
trust in the gravity of grace,
the life that sings in all things:
the arctic tern facing an ocean
who lifts her wings, and goes,
the stream that unfurls through the woods,
the roots that reach and curl around stones,
the earth that circles around the sun
one more time, and one more again.
The child who turns to her mother.
The hand of the Healer on every torn thing.
Hope is not wishing but acting.
Birthing. Planting. Getting up.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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