Welcome to the last day of 2008!
Concluding our consideration of hope this week, what do you hope for? For other people, animals, plants, oceans? For our planet? For other nations? Does that kind of hope do any good? How does what you hope for, for others express itself in your life?
Consider Thomas Merton’s words:
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea, and more and more for specific people in the end. It is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
As we close the year, know that the results which we support in this practice are held to be preciously and uniquely individual to each of you, and we treasure our relationship with you.
Thank you for the opportunity to support your hopes and dreams – and please know that to learn with you is a great privilege.
May 2009 bring everything you’ve always hoped for!