"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." ~ Barbara Kingsolver
No idea what Ms. Kingsolver is saying here. But I read it and thought what it might be that I would ‘hope’ for. I ‘hope’ for absolute, unchangeable Peace. Now, clearly, ‘hoping’ for it is about as useful as ‘hoping’ that it will rain tomorrow or ‘hoping’ that lottery ticket, this time, will pay me untold millions.... I’m ‘hoping’.... In order to actually HAVE the experience of Peace I must do a whole lot more than passively ‘hoping’. I must clear all obstructions which I have erected against the experience of Peace. I must pro-actively clear the deck. Or, I can sit in ‘hope’ and wallow in self-pity when my ‘hopes’ once again are dashed. To what extent are ‘hope’ and ‘victim’ linked, I wonder?