#407 – What will you do when you stop hoping?

A better question might be, "how will you handle not hoping?"

When you hope, you're rejecting your present reality, wishing that it'll change in the future. "I hope my son will be released from jail tomorrow" means that I reject what's real now.

Futile as this rejection is, my Ego keeps clenching its fists and stomping its feet: no, no, no! As if this reaction would somehow impact life's unfolding––it won't.

So, I stop hoping. What do I do instead?

Nothing, because what's there to do?

That doesn't mean that I am not happy in anticipation––I am. Not because I hope but because I choose to be happy no matter what.

The difference is that, because I don't hope, if the Judge tomorrow makes an unexpected decision, I won't feel stupid or guilty for my anticipatory joy. I won't regret having felt happy because I'll feel happy either way. By choice.

Thus, I'll be able to stand in my son's bedroom and be ok with the fresh-laundry smell of his new towels and bedding.

Because, when you don't hope, you don't regret either. Instead, you are: you breathe one breath at a time and walk one step at a time.

What hope will you drop to embrace the present moment without resistance?

Love,

Carolina