Hope - Coffee, Opiate, Manna Brings Plot Twists, Salvation and Ecstasy
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011
by Christofer French
Rain Dancer Associates, LLC
Hope is such a human word that your mind fills up with a hundred instances of it I hope I get my special gift for Christmas. I hope my worst enemy falls into a muddy creek. I hope my soul’s mate will knock on my door. I hope I won’t gain any more weight. And then we think of the grandest hopes: Hey, why don’t you Hitch Your Wagon to a Star and let me steer my Tall Ship by a far off Star. Hope dances around in the arena of daily life and the realm of night time reverie.
The action of the difficulty of life makes us build patience. We see misunderstanding and accidents and misfortune and we realize, “I must have patience!”
And so we adopt a new exalted way of living with these things. Hope then becomes patience with the lamp lit.
A Cup of Coffee and an Opiate
Human Hope is both a Cup of Coffee and a Powerful Opiate. Eric Hoffer thought about these topics and tried to put a fence around two big extremes. At the close up, Hope is the human animator of making things happen. It serves a function of distinction and emphasis. The “I want this”, and “hope for that” crackles inside us like a Divine Hormone making the act of being a human an electrical process. It helps us declare “I will not be denied”, and when we actually are denied anyway, it emerges the next morning with a new plan.
But then, the Long Term helps us hang around and strive for decades and walk long paths for ends and goals and realizations. It is truly an Opiate because it puts “asleep”, or quiets our desperations, or makes our over active hearts simplify our paths and plans. Whether you call it a religious opinion, or a longed for spiritual outcome at the end of our days; Hope has a way of giving us comfort in the warm and pulsating parts of our deep “want to’s” and our cosmic “where are we headed”
And since Hope does exist and acts like an opiate or a sleep inducing cure for the crazy anxiety about where we are going to go when we die, we live with this Hope because without it, the coldest desolation can seem to slip into our days and the remembrance of a Hope that used to be becomes the oddest meanest old tale of trying to row the ocean with no food and a half-working sail.
Anyone with an open eye and an awake consciousness can meander through an ordinary day and see the actions of the “around-the-corner brand of hope that makes events happen, love occur, new relationships start and bad things get appended. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate that gives up a sometimes vague, but always comforting lingering affection. Like an always affectionate pet, it licks our tear- strewn cheeks at the end of the day and tells us that there is indeed an eternal animator making life worth living.
Our Divine DNA builds Receptors for the Manna of Hope
Hope is like Manna. There it is, appearing for our sustenance in the Wild. There is something about this Manna that goes directly to the Receptors inside us that helps us see that whatever this is, it works for us.
Like Manna in the Wild, Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that the Divine gives us. The wilderness is often referred to as the darkness of the world with its lack and restraint.
The Manna represents what comes to us from somewhere and fills up our day with a new way of experiencing life. Munching on the food that the Children were provided turned the Wild into a New Place.
And so, when we think of Hope, we feel it’s freshness and soul nutrition. We feel how after it’s reality is now pulsating in us, that life is just different. We were meant to be living with hope. We were meant to be feeling its value in our veins. Our hearts were meant to beat extra strongly because of the essence of hope in us.
Power and Success, Working out Ecstasy and Miracles
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Hope is to be Consulted. Pope John XXIII declared that we should consult not our fears but our hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Hope is Active
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort . It is not just a lingering warm sentiment it can be a tool or weapon of the mind and the status quo.
It is meant to wrestle the enemy - fear in the battlefield of dailiness, or the arena of loss and directionless wandering.
We Are Not the Stuff of Cosmic Flatulence
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. So it is not unlikely that we will get bloody knees and hoarse voices as we declare who we are as individuals. Hope is there to nurse you at night. It whispers in your ears and sings to your heart. “You are not the stuff of Cosmic Flatulence.” And then maybe we weep, and so we try to fill up on that precious Manna and we look somewhere where we think the Divine may inhabit and we utter a conclusion.
“You mean I have been given Hope to arm me against the banal, the dumb, the tragic, the stupid, the heart breaking and the soul emptying?”
And then a voice comes back.
“What a question. You need some more Manna. You have been given Hope for the New, the Resurrection of your dreams, the staying quality, the smile on your lips when you become old and the thousand plot twists that you engineered in your undying efforts to experience salvation and ecstasy – and all this -- just because you are mine.”
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)What a timely article for the many who struggle, with hope, discouragement, and depression this time of year. An old Cherokee Indian once told me "Things never turn out the way we think they will"...and he was right. However, for the disappointing ones... there are always those times that turn out better than we thought they would. Maybe not how we thought, but better nonetheless.
I like the phrase 'hope is the animator of making things happen'....so true, and a great reminder. If Satan can cripple our hope, then he can steal from us. You have encouraged me today....MERRY CHRISTMAS.This makes me feel good. Thanks for your notice and support. Have a wonderful Christmas.
Thank you Christofer.
"Blessed are the Devines who steer us upon the path of both Hope and Righteousness."
Merry Christmas and have a very prosperous New Year.I give you an immense Thank you and have a Hope that your life will be bettered this season.
I do hope that everyone enjoys reading you, as well as I do!
PaulThank you so much for that expression of appreciation. This lifts my day!
I so very much enjoy reading your work. You have a unique way of expression. This article is a reinforcer, a positive influence, and hope.
Now I've got to say this. Your line We Are Not the Stuff of Cosmic Flatulence is priceless. You have given me a line that I HOPE I can use.Before all the world, and God himself, I give your permission to use this phrase: I myself thought it was priceless too, so without a price, it is yours!
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