Brave Choice

Consider a minor change to your routine

imagine

no email

minor by most standards, but really.

What if suddenly you didn't get the dedicated attention those you trust provide?

personal tragedy huh?

You got that grief in hand? Feel the tightening in your throat, the tears breaking at the rim of your eyelids to flood out?

It's important to make it personal so you might entertain that every living person around you is fighting that very same battle.

To keep from totally surrendering to the grief of living with loss.

In that awareness do you feel a spark of compassion?

A hint of warmth towards those who just a few heartbeats ago were the bane to your existence?

It wasn't them after all.

It was how they were framed in a conditions that makes them stand out.

I believe our pain echoes....

That other people are sounding boards for that din.

I think, our hearing is the vanguard to make us alert

So we then we listen and discern

Then look to see

Fear not, you were born to notice

And feel change

I am glad you were listening.

Oh, and by the way, vulnerable is how we actually are.

Consider kindness a condition to communion.

No one can obtain the thrill of intimacy without risk

Eventually learning that it is WE who create comfort, as we laugh at ourselves with someone we've grown to trust.

They are in our lives because we empowered ourselves to choose quality

That comes from caring; without caring we're deluding ourselves that something good will somehow be magically delivered.

I'd rather be a grown up and take the reins of possibilities

Then trust in hope that some reward is waiting for me if I behave.

No way

We got to work at it...like mining precious minerals....little valuable pieces mixed in with all the rest of the dredged up dirt.

It's on us to pluck those treasures out.