responsibility

tearing down old ways of thinking…
discovering new realms hidden within…i’ll be damned….within ME!
all life is a creative process, whether realized or not, conscious or unconscious…
this is hard! how does one break out of years of intensely ingrained beliefs?
and never mind sharing your discovery with others…people are quick to knock down what is unfamiliar…
but “it” insists, this creative concept takes a seat in your mind and does not leave your thoughts…
“it” hangs out, sometimes deep inside your psyche, other times on the tail feathers of your musings…
once entertained, the concept that we are individually responsible for our worlds and all they entail never truly leaves us…
once explored, we are reborn with a sense that we are generators of all that exists within our experience…

responsibility, a powerful place to stand…

change your thoughts

change your thoughts, you change your life, you change your family’s relationship, you change your community, you change your city, your state, your nation and eventually….change your world…


but no…people hang on to the ill conceived notion that they are destined for misery…and they have all the evidence in the world to back up this insane, inane belief…as soon as yet another unfortunate event crosses their path, they hang on to it, they hold it up for all to see, they use it as a means to gain the sympathy of others…they may not do so conciously, but they’re doing it…i know, i used to as well…

but something happened…i ain’t gonna claim i’m healed, it takes work fo damn sho’…hehehe…it’s called surrender, it’s called taking responsibility, it’s called making a choice to learn from my life rather than be victim to it…it’s called…

….changing my thoughts…

There but for the grace of God…

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
There but for the grace of God go I…or…there because of the grace of God must I go if I am to become all that I can be. There is so much power in us…yet, we don’t realize this until we are tested. How will we know the profound depth of our own strength if we are never knocked down? It is when we are down that we have the opportunity before us to find a way to get up. Once up, we are then presented with another opportunity, call it a choice. We can choose to be a victim or, we can look upon the scar and see that we are so much stronger for it. There must come a time when we look back on our pain and cherish it…honor the lesson presented for us to learn from if we so choose. It’s some scary shit…but, it is so needed. The light can’t know itself without venturing into the dark…