A Greater Hope Prevails

A greater hope prevails: 

admittedly, addressing hope is a tough one for me, it can seem a faint promise, a hollow wish for something better than whatever's occurring right now. The Buddha taught the hope can often lead to suffering, that we can become attached to a specif outcome or desire and refuse to accept what the present moment offers. This has often been my experience as well, hoping for many things, yet always left disappointed in their failure to appear. 

but Saint offers us a different course of hope.

praying, from despair...

and asking for a transformation. 

hope, from this perspective, is more a belief in our ability to transcend, it's not a faint promise at all, but more of a powerful tool to accept this moment of despair, while knowing that even now it's in the process of shifting to something other. To hope is a prayer of strength, it's asking for the courage to remain true to my spiritual heart in the face of all that shows me despair. 

so I see things differently now.

from despair, 

I ask for hope. 

not for things to be other than they are, but only that I accept this moment, 

whatever might be present, 

knowing that a greater hope prevails.

~

Love, Eric

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Answer to My Every Prayer

Answer to my every prayer: 

recently, and surprisingly,I find myself doing something I haven't done since I was a child - I'm praying in a very sincere and straight forward manner, asking for guidance and change in the way I presently view the world. This is a prayer of humbleness, stating that I don't the answers, any, not on anything of truly great importance, and that I now wish to surrender my best thoughts and opinions for a far greater intelligence than my own. 

I'm praying for a miracle to occur.

a miracle here is a mind shift, that there is, indeed, another way to see the world, a different view point that I keep missing in an insistence to have my demands met. The miracle is asking that I humble myself to silence, listening, and allowing the quiet voice of love to speak. Finally. I've hushed this voice for quite sometime, believing so much in my own opinion, giving ego sway to all my concerns. My prayers are always answered, immediately so -

and the answer itself is silence. 

of course it's not what my ego wishes to hear.

but if I'm patient,

sitting through silence just a bit longer than the ego's willing, a miracle occurs. I'm gifted with my own surrender, a sigh that comes through relief and relinquishment of my insistence. Presence is revealed, divine, that great intelligence that guides my blood to flow through every vein, directs heart to pump and my lungs to draw air. 

the miracle is that I find true holiness within.

I hear the only voice of God.

silence. 

always speaking love.

and the answer to my every prayer.

~

Peace, Eric 

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