Hope

Tuesday 11/18/08 - Karuna

It's been a short time and already a cliché is born.  Hope is
restored!  But let us not forget that along with these feelings of
Hopefulness in the wake of historic events, comes the responsibility
to translate these feelings into practical actions that honor and
defend the breadth and depth of the Hopefulness that has been
unfurled.

We need to recommit ourselves on a daily basis to the inspiration and
the actions that electrified our visions, and motivated our
participation. We must remain engaged in the lives of our communities
for they support and sustain our individual lives. We must be willing
to look at the reality of the dark and light of every moment, not
letting ourselves be swept away by despair at the enormity of the
problems; or be entangled by our ego at the illusion of power we may
wield.

Yes, we are powerful.  We know that and have seen our power in action.
 Our true power has never come from a place that feeds us alone.  Our
true power comes from and is at its best when it recognizes that I can
because you can too.  It comes from the place that is within each of
us as individuals and each family, community, state, nation and the
world.  This is the place that recognizes on the deepest level
possible, that we are more similar than we are different, and that we
remain separate because we accept the illusion that if you can then I
can not.

When we each find our voice and our power, we discover the resonance
we seek in the realization of the place we hold in the chorus of
humanity, and that all voices are needed, all tones are required, all
melodies meld into one harmony.  The work to remain Hopeful is the
work we seek, it is the reifying of the vision; it is the call that we
have all heard.

Now let us defend our vision, commit ourselves to use our power for
Us, and to continue the work that We have begun – because we can and
we will.