Hope

June 26th, 2017

Where is hope? Does it shine like a star in the dark night sky just waiting for us to fix our gaze upon it? Is it the precious diamond hidden deep within the earth that is only uncovered by digging deeply in the dark? Is it the elusive firefly that sparkles briefly here and then there?

Hope is in the dark night sky and in the dark earth and in the evening dusk. Hope is everywhere. It is in the bannister we reach for when we stumble on the stairs. It is in the pill that promises relief. It is in the hug that says we are not alone.

Hope is invisible and yet we have all felt it. We have felt the gentle push helping us to take another step. We have felt the cool breeze that dries our tear soaked cheeks. We have felt the surprising arrival of an uplifting memory that made us smile when we thought we could never smile again.

Hope stands defiantly in the face of certainty. Hope reminds us of other victories and miracles. Hope brings the sudden inspirations. 

Hope doesn’t need to be summoned to our side. It appears on its own, knowing that we are too weak to call to it or to believe in it.

If the darkness seems endless and the future non existent it is not because life and love have abandoned us. It is because our suffering has closed our eyes. Hope comes to open the eyes that do not see, to open the heart that is deemed too broken to function, to hold the hand that feels empty. 

Hope asks for nothing in return except to be grateful because hope knows that being grateful is the sign that our courage has returned.   

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 Patrick McBride 
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The Wave

June 19th, 2017

What happened to the wave? 
It was the late nineteen sixties and all we thought about was love. It was in the songs. It was in the art. It was everywhere, man. We knew that love felt good, real good and we knew that hate felt real bad so we focused on love and it was everywhere, man. It was groovy and it was a wave that was washing over the whole world. 

We were on top of that wave, man and we were high. We wanted that wave to wash it all clean. We wanted that wave to change the world. We knew that our wave was love and we knew that there was nothing more powerful than love so we must be riding the most powerful wave in history.

And then… something started to change. We loved everything, man but we found things we didn’t love. We didn’t love people hurting other people. We didn’t love people who hurt the earth. We didn’t love… well, we didn’t love many things and… the wave got smaller. 

​​​​​​​We told ourselves that we were going to take a short break from the wave so we could deal with some of the stuff that we didn’t love and…the wave got even smaller. We agreed that the wise ones loved everything but we couldn’t do that right now. We had to fight some things, man. And… the wave got still smaller.

We started choosing sides on many issues and we wanted to crush the opposition and when we did it felt like we were high, man. Love was cool but winning arguments and fights and hooray for our side was like being on a wave too, right?

Time flew by and we had children and we wanted to show them the wave but all we could find were ripples. Never mind, man. Let me show you some groovy gadgets that we would have loved to have had back in the day.

Back in the day we got some things wrong but we got one thing very right. There is nothing that is more powerful than love. The ripples that are left are because of the wise ones. They are still doing it, man. But it’s time to help them. It’s time to bring more love into our lives. It’s time to spread more love. It’s time to talk about, write about and sing about love again, man. 

It’s not about you and me on our own yoga or meditation mats doing our own thing. It’s about us thinking about love, thinking about what we are for instead of what we are against, thinking about what’s beautiful. Yeah man, that’s it, let’s start thinking more about what’s beautiful. What a wave that would be.   

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 Patrick McBride 
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