Our Hands

My heart is heavy today.  For more reasons than one, but mainly because this world and the people in it have lost almost all traces of humanity.  People today are only concerned about themselves whether friend or foe.  Generosity is becoming a scarce action, kindness is withering away and being replaced by hatred and discrimination. 
Money rules most things, material and intangible. Blood is shed daily in the name of religion and a God that so many blindly believed in.  A God that is suppose to be kind, gentle, forgiving...pure.  Yet all that worship him do not emulate that persona.
We do not live by the words we so quickly worship and call sacred.
We do not accept those that do not look or act like us.  We hurt them. With words, with actions, with beliefs, with violence, with our own fear of change and that which might be uncomfortable to us.
We do not adapt to our enviornment, but we adapt the enviornment to us.  Ruining and killing such beautiful and pure things only so that we can have what we want, and not what beneifits others.

What if we were to live for others?  Maybe a young man that took his own life because of the pain he felt due to all of this travisty would be alive today.  His mother would not be mourning the lose of her child.  The child she created with her own body, and nutured and brought to life in her own womb. 
His father would not be asking the question "why"? Or wondering what he could have done differently for his son. 

What if we were to love one another as if we loved ourselves or the ones we hold close to our hearts?
Maybe this world would not be as ugly and scary as it is now.  Maybe people would STRIVE and SUCCEED.  Be lifted up above all that has brought so many down.
What if we were to accept all that is different from what we were taught and know?  Maybe this world would not be war torn.  Maybe instead of fighting for our rights and freedom, we fought for equality and love. 

There are alot of what if's.  And the thing is, there doesn't have to be.  So many people think that they are not in control or their presence does not make a difference in this world. When in acuality, all of the control lies in our hands.
Look down at the two hands that your creator gave you, in those palms lies truth, love, understanding, healing, and all of the things that this world needs in order to change...........

Now put them to work.

Desert Remains

Moab.  I remember when you and I first had an our first encounter.  Mid-June, it was hotter than hell.  I explored the White Rim Trail for two days, all while feeling like I was in a far away land.  Away from society, from responsibility, from myself.  I just drove, camped, hiked, drank wine, and took in what is the mass beauty of this red desert.   
I climb your rocks so high people below are all but ants beneath my big red feet. The sun beating down on my brown, dry, dirt caked skin. Hair a mess, tired from a miserable night of sleep before, yet I still have the energy to see more. 

Until next summer....

Optimisim

The Optimist’s Creed by Christian D. Larson
Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.