Hope Springs Eternal - Rev Paul Gonyea

Many of us use hope to keep us from experiencing the logical consequences of our choices and actions, and that’s where it causes us problems. We look at an experience in the physical world, as it appears right now and we compare it to the way we wish things actually were. But instead of seeing the disparity between what we’re experiencing and what we want, and changing our belief, or changing our expectation, or changing our behavior, we start hoping harder and harder that something different is going to happen. We hope that things will change on their own, without our having to do anything different.