Hope is Alive - Steve Penny

Another great recent post from Steve Penny........

The late Teddy Kennedy will be remembered for his quote “Hope is Alive and the Dream Continues.”

Hope is not passive but creates three powerful waves in a person's life.

Hope firstly produces a wave of desire within a person. When hope dies all your desires die with it and then all that remains are fears and dreads. The first sign of hope is a strong desire for something.

The second wave of hope is expectation. Desire now grows to become a strong expectation. By keeping hope alive you are creating waves of inner momentum and now a strong expectation has started to grow within you.

The third wave of hope is enthusiasm. The thing you desire is now anticipated to arrive and you enthusiastically prepare for it in your life.

Hope is not passive but is the development of a strong inner environment from which an outward action of faith can be taken. You must allow hope to stay alive and grow in your inner world and as you do it will produce an environment in which your expectation will mobilise you to take action and bring about your desired results.

I am hoping for better things continually and so I continue to allow the waves of hope to surge within me until I enthusiastically express my inner hope as an outward action of faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for – the evidence of things not seen.