Hope: Gratitude

Emotion is the core of power within life. With them one can build or destroy; raise and lift up or push down and trample. When we are directing our emotions to the Universe, we are helping to build it when they are positive; like rain helps plants to grow. When we fire up and use burning words against it, we are helping to destroy it. Since the Universe helps us to create / construct our reality, it hears either voice we give, but, because the Universe is so built for life, it tends to contain destruction to the source of it.

When we conform to the nature of the Universe, which is to support life, build and love – which is the nature of abundance, then we set ourselves to allow its flow of abundance in our own lives. In addition, the Universe also carries sentience within itself and other life which wishes to live rather than be destroyed, so when we are grateful, we stir the Universe’s compassion. This in turn calms the storms of life.

Praise, goodwill and celebration all lift up. These feelings are the core of gratitude. When we are genuinely thankful, we hold the feeling and thoughts of gratitude, therefore we are building – being constructive. We create goodwill within ourselves and in the life around us. As we become a singular point of good feeling, we gain the favor of the Universe. In that favor we discover abundance because we become the focus of goodwill from the life all around us.

Gratitude is the true hope. When we allow it to burn brightly and not allow ourselves to be deterred from the course it sets, we are rushed along in the currents of the Universe. True hope allows us to move forward rapidly, brought to the destination our hope guides us to. And as we are set upon that new shore, we find it a land we have always known and our footing on it is firm.