Hope

Sunrises make me feel hopeful. Perhaps its the thought of a new fresh day. Today was no exception. The sun came up today just like it does every other day. The air is thick and in need of relief from a thunderstorm. The sky is beautiful - peppered with clouds alternating between the colour of the clouds and the colour of the sky. It is a very hope filled scene.

When you look for hope then you find hopeful things. It's a function of focus. It's also more pleasurable to look for hope than to obsess about what's wrong. Paradoxically, surrendering to what's wrong in your life can liberate you and give you the ability to focus on something else. We have a hard time accepting the truth of our circumstances. I think it's because we actually resist what's wrong in our lives instead of surrendering to the way it is. Resistance is a form of focus. You've heard the saying "what you resist persists", right? It persists because you are trying to make it go away by resisting it. This just makes it even stronger. The only way to get to the other side of the problem is to go right through it. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do. When you are free of your own resistance then you will be free to focus on what you really want.