Warrior of the Light Newsletter no.180
The second cardinal virtue: Hope
According to the dictionary:
a tendency of the spirit to consider something as probable; the second
of the theological virtues; expectation; supposition; probability.
In
the words of Jesus: Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or
store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are
you not of more account than they? But which of you with all his worry
can add a single hour to his life? Why should you worry about clothing?
See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin, and yet I tell
you, Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.
But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today
and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not so much more surely
clothe you, you who have so little faith? (Matthew, 6: 26-30)
For the ancient Greeks: In one of the classic myths of the Creation, one of the gods, furious at the fact that Prometheus stole fire and in doing so gave men their independence, sends Pandora to marry her brother Epimetheus. Pandora brings along a box, which she is forbidden to open. However, just as happens to Eve in the Christian myth, her curiosity gets the better of her: she raises the lid to see what is inside, and at this moment all the troubles of the world spill out and spread all over the Earth. Only one thing remains inside: Hope, the only arm to combat the misfortune that has scattered throughout the world.
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Paulo Coelho
www.warriorofthelight.com
