Hope

We generally think of hope as a good thing, as something we want to maintain in hard times. But is it ideal? What is it? How do we get it/keep it/have it?

How the Stars Get in Your Bones - ReVisionary's View: A Poet's Country is the World

(a poem by Jan Richardson) Sapphire, diamond, emerald, quartz: think of every hard thing that carries its own brilliance, shining with the luster that comes only from uncountable ages in the earth, in the dark, buried beneath unimaginable weight, bearing what seemed impossible, bearing it still. And you, shouldering the grief you had thought so+ Read More

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Orion Magazine - Beyond Hope

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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