Above all else, we are one. We are hope.

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting….We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions…,” President Barack Obama at his victory speech in the United States of America.

Hope is that which ignites the fire in us. Gives us the stamina to keep moving. To keep stumbling through the darkness until we find the light because deep down inside, we know there is always light after that darkness. Hope is that inner compass that reminds us. That inner feeling that asks us, wills us, cajoles us to keep going even in our bleakest hour and if we hold on to hope, hope ultimately pulls us through and allows us to prevail. But we have to understand hope alone doesn’t do it. We have got to keep doing the work that needs to be done to get us to the Promised Land. To that place or thing we want. We have to strive for our ambitions but not at the expense of others. But to the benefit of us all because when we do, we realize and accept that we are all part of the unified field in this Universe.

I have to admit I was on the fence about the US election because as President Obama said I have become one of those cynical people who believes that politics gets us nowhere but divided along party lines. That I have become jaded about the effectiveness of leaders because they are so driven by the desire for power that sometimes they forget about all the promises they made to those who put them in power in the first place. That power corrupts. That there are no morals left in politics because politicians will do what they need to do to get elected.

But when I heard the speech delivered by President Obama after securing his second term in office, I knew in my heart he was the right person for the job. I knew and felt he was not just talking politics. He was speaking to the very essence of our being. His words were coming from a spiritual place we all carry. That place where pure unlimited potential comes from. That place that allows us to manifest miracles.

Any president who can speak to the division created by partisan politics, who can speak to the inherent prejudices we all carry, who can express gratitude for all those who remained with him and those who left him, who can address the mistakes made, the lessons learned and embrace the tough road ahead by defining it as hope is a man who will always look out for the best interest of the whole. For him to declare that we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions sent chills down my spine because despite him talking about the United States for all that it matters he could have been talking about all of us around the world. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. Greater than the sum of individual differences. Greater than the sum of our individual choices because we are one. Connected to one Divine Source. We are our brother’s keeper. Our sister’s keeper and it doesn’t matter where we come from or what we look like or what we believe in. We are one.

Until we recognize that our every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, we will never move forward as a united people. And I know that we cannot and will not always live in Utopia. That we will never all share the same philosophies or beliefs but as long as we are willing to embrace the differences between us all, we will prosper. And flourish.

Any President that can fill me with hope as the acceptance speech of President Obama did last night is a president worth having not just for the United States but for the rest of the world as well. Because at these bleak and negative times, we need all the hope we can get. We need all the faith we can muster. We need all the courage we can harness to climb to the top of that ever steep mountain threatening to keep us down because of fear, pestilence and cynicism. And more than that we need each other globally to survive.

Congratulations to the United States of America for bringing hope back into my heart. For electing a man who reminded me that above all else, there is always hope that something better awaits me as long as I have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. And restoring my faith in the Universe that we are greater than the sum of our ambitions.