Difference...

 

As I was sitting at a stoplight this afternoon I glanced over and saw all kinds of stuff by the curb. Discarded cigarette butts, bottle caps, torn paper, etc. It got me to thinking about how we each DO make a difference in this world. We each have a choice in each present moment to litter or not. It's a small choice but one that impacts our world.

A Fathers Choice...

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers that "choose" everyday to be a father to their children!

And thank you to my father who passed away nineteen and a half years ago ~ he used his last breath to let me know he loved me.

Right Now...

"It''s never to late to make a new choice. It's always available to you right now in this present moment."

Daily Love

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In the morning when I wake, it's comforting to know I can make different "new" choices in each present moment I'm given. But there's a catch... I must be "present" in my present moment or it's just another moment with the same old choice. But that's okay too, because I can pick and choose again when I forget!

Steps...

"We are grateful for fear, but allow ourselves to make a choice from a higher place, from a place of trust. The ironic thing is that once we die to fear, we can live. So living does require that we die, that we die to our fears, our doubts, and our old ways of thinking. We must take that first scary step out with trust that we will either know how to fly or that we will be caught.

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You would think as many times in my life as I've taken that first scary step it would become easier. But today it doesn't feel like it. Maybe because each of the different steps is another fear that needs to be conquered. And I can look back on my other experiences and KNOW, that trust brought me through and I either learned how to fly or I was caught. 

Only Choice...

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

Bob Marley

Right now being strong IS my only choice. Yes I could give up but that's not an option. It is not a choice I want. I want to make it through this unknown because I know deep in my heart there is love and beauty that dwells within this process. I see it and then I lose sight of it. I can do this... I am strong enough!

To live by...

No matter how long we have traveled on the wrong road, we can always turn around.

This saying was on the "Positively Positive" Facebook page and it's nice because it always gives me something positive to focus on everyday. I liked what it says - "that we can always turn around", and even if that is only in our thoughts It reminds me I always have a choice.