Aloha,
My name is Reverend Cindy Pollos and I wanted to talk today about hope.
You know in life we go through a lot of challenges and I think that's part of learning.
The learning process is not always an easy process because it's the hard lessons that mean you have to go deep inside and learn your lessons and sometimes those lessons,
Being hard lessons,
Can make you feel like you don't have enough strength to have that hope in life anymore.
But hope is so so important.
Hope with a perspective,
An inner perspective,
That there is this energy that is so pervasive,
That is based on love,
That is based on that inner love that you have and that light that you see.
That inner light and love can be the very most important gift that can give you hope because when you experience that inner light and that wonderful gift of love then you do have hope because that great gift,
That greatest gift of hope,
Is born out of seeing the reason for being alive,
The purpose of your life,
The overview of your life,
That I think you go through when you get ready to pass on and you have an overview of your life.
Sometimes you can experience that overview of your life if you have a mystical experience or an inner union with your higher self and sometimes that can happen in meditation to get that perspective as well.
I love meditation so much.
I meditate every day and I've been doing this for many,
Many,
Many,
Many years since I've been 15 and it always is amazing to me how there's something that comes from the meditation that makes me feel that inner hope,
That inner love,
That inner light and it feeds the soul,
You know,
It feeds the soul and it feeds your heart in so many wonderful ways.
Now what I do with it,
As many of you who have been listening for a while know,
Is I write down something every time after I've meditated every day.
I write down what comes to me and that helps to build for me that inner connection and that thread that comes from the higher self to my conscious mind and I never quite know what's going to come out.
I may have a phrase,
A few words that come,
But it's the gift of this energy that pours through you when you open up that door and that you have that hope that something will come that you can share and it's a great,
Great gift,
You know,
That amazing connection that you have can truly make a difference not only in your life but in being able to share it with others and maybe someone you know,
It may just be a smile,
You know,
Someone you don't know,
It can be a family member,
But I have seen people going through so many challenging times when you can offer them some hope and some encouragement that it really can make a huge difference in their lives.
You've got to have hope,
You know,
So I really think you can find that inner hope in meditation if you open the door to what's really there,
What's really there inside you.
It's so positive,
It's so beautiful that it will give you that insight into being able to truly see your true purpose,
That love that's present in your life,
Why you're alive and that will give you that hope.
So,
I bow in deepest gratitude and I hope that you can find that hope that is present,
That's waiting there for you to discover,
That will make you feel good,
That will give you something that you can share.
It's a great gift and I feel like it's a great gift to be able to be here today talking to you and I bow in the deepest gratitude.
