Impressions

IMPRESSIONS

You find yourself, alone, lost in the woods— dark—dreadful—dismal. You are desperate to find your way out of this dark and forbidding place. You are alone, you have lost your guide, you are scared. Do you give up and wander in misery or do you exercise hope? Hope can be powerful. If and when you find it – hope, what else could you do? Search yourself (within) for tools— tools that, if trusted and correctly applied, will bring you hope, relief, rescue, enlightenment and ultimately, salvation. Hope and courage: your tools, applied, you feel that somehow, you are not alone and then being more determined, continue on. Moreover, through your experience, perhaps you have gained an enhanced clarity. What you have been. Where you have been.

You realize that there are guiding voices, impressions, and feelings. Apprehension diminishes and somehow you notice a door open—a door not seen before—a way out of the dismal, the futile. Suddenly you sense the power of hope and you sense that perhaps there is a chance to escape your

doubts, worries and fears. You also realize that you did not find this clarity by happenstance, by mere

luck nor on your own.

An acknowledgement of a guide, a higher guide—finding and assisting you, does not seem all that odd after all. There will be peace. You know that now, you believe and in the end, your goals are realized. For there is hope...and where hope is, direction appears as doubts disappear.