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[Tree Hugger]

Hello Seekers

Hope
A shining word is hope.
It rises like the sun on a dreary day.
Why does humanity use such words to explain hope?
The rain is needed just as much as the sun but they never say, for example, hope rises in the heart like a rain cloud. If the sun is used as a symbol of hope or brightness to contrast the rain, then does that make the lack of sun, or the rain bad? Then the problem must lie in human metaphors and the perceptions they engender.

Some cry, I have no hope, or all hope has left me. But what if hope did not walk away from humanity but humanity instead walked away from hope? The universe is the same, the stars, the moon and the sun are unchanged since humanity began walking the earth. The trees still hold their branches up to the sky, the wind still blows, and the food still grows from the ground, and the water flows. Some say, God has left me, but could it be the other way around?

Perhaps if you find no hope you could be looking in the wrong place for your hope. Hope was never something dependent on humanity, it rises naturally like breathing. Humanity began to walk away from hope when they walked away from nature and from the lessons that nature and the universe teaches about hope. They began to walk away, when they stopped seeing mystery and unseen things, and allowed themselves to believe there were no consequences. Since they began to think they alone in the universe and nature was a only a resource, and the sun was only a hot ball of gas and they were the masters and not the caretakers, hope began to slip away.

They forgot how to walk reverently upon the earth, and to them sacredness was a word in a book, not the soil under their feet, and they began to sink into a state of despair.

Each moment somewhere on earth, sprouts break through the ground, eggs hatch, and new life fills the skies and the land, but the vision of skyscrapers and smoke stacks has obliterated the view and so those apart from nature walk in ignorance of the hope around them.

Some ask me, how can you have hope when you can clearly see what humanity has done? Even the native peoples are appalled and mourning over the ruination of the earth. My answer is that things were allowed to get this bad, so bad, in fact, that some scientists say in 50 years there will be no life on earth, for a reason. Some people have to be hanging over a cliff by one foot before they will begin to see, that they should not have been so foolhardy as to dance on the edge of disaster. It is the consequences of not caring, and not loving and not seeing the lessons. It is the consequences of walking away from the hope that can be seen in even a tiny seed.

Now a great mass of humanity is totally alienated from hope and cannot even feed themselves, or find water in the world given to them, they were to be caregivers and reap the bounty but now they are slaves to each other and hopelessness. They cannot see hope because they have forgotten where to look. This too has been allowed, for a purpose. All things have a purpose and a reason and nothing is random in the Mind of God.

The Mind of the Creator Spirit, swims with the fish and flies with the birds and walks in the shoes of humans, and is found in the intelligence of every atom, it is not because of there is no love for humanity but just the opposite. Humanity is learning how to be the human part of God, by seeing that to leave his nature and his spirit and only walk in flesh is a hopeless life indeed.

So who is hanging out there on the imaginary cliff in an imaginary earth hanging in nothing but waves of thought? The Divine Mind is aware every moment and
life is a course in seeing consequences and gaining wisdom in this manner.
It is not God who is hiding, but humanity who has hid itself from God.

Those who have taught humanity to only value paper money and not human lives, and that its alright to cheat if you make laws saying its alright, have forgotten that humanity is all one. Thousands of years before the Roman religion arose to obliterate the knowledge, those who studied nature and the universe knew the unity and symmetry found there, and so hope always burned bright in these hearts.

Can humanity destroy itself? The ability does exist, and this is part of the consequences. Only by seeing the worst can one long for the best. Some have made a business out of promoting, both the power of humanity to destroy itself, and the hopelessness of stopping it. Those who say that the world leaders are not listening to the voices of the people, do not realize that those in power, only pretend to listen, and always have. This is what power over others is about.

There is no wisdom to be found in such leaders, and they are empty vessels speaking empty words with empty hope.
But they continue to be heeded because since humanity has lost its ways they now only have each other to listen to, and each one is no more wise than the next.

Humanity for the most part had stopped listening to eternity beating in their hearts, but those who have not left the natural ways, still hear that still quiet voice of the teacher within.

All situations provide learning opportunities.
Will it be the heart that expands in compassion or the wallet that expands? Will choices be to see the earth as a resource or as a sacred womb of life?

Is it a coincidence that the end of the cycle comes at a time when humanity is furthest away from hope and furthest away from Spirit? We are all one which is true, but we do not see through the same pair of eyes, nor the same spiritual eyes, so when they ask me how can you have hope amidst all this, I say how can you not see hope?

Because when your eyes are restored you see that humans, whose thinking is distorted by ignorance do not guide the universe. Humanity never was in charge, leaders may look like they are in charge but they are not, as we all exist within the Mind of the Divine Being of Creation, and are the indestructible waves of thought. How can a thought in the Divine Mind be destroyed? Creation did not just happen once, it is continuing each moment. Each moment is a new time for hope.

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