Todays Gift

"Each day provides its own gifts"- Marcus Auralius

Today, I will seek to find and notice the gifts that my day brings me. Even in the smallest of ways, I will trust that there is a gift to be seen, and that color will show at sometime in my journey today. It's my promise to myself, and it's my promise to people around me. If I see my day as colorful, than so shall my color show to others.

If I accept todays gift, however great or small it may be, than I am allowing myself to enjoy bringing gifts to others.

So here I go

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength".- Marcus Aurelius

So maybe it is true. That happiness is a choice. I still think that you should be able to feel what you feel, but often in this society, people overdose on that emotion. Or is it that this society is highly imbalanced. So how do we find that balance again?

Is it really happiness that's choice? Or is strength the choice.

Yesterday I had to make a conscious decision to see the color in each day. But sometimes the stresses of life are just too much to bear.

A house that is in for-closure, and no immediate funds to save it.

A child that has been lost, and the grief of having to say goodbye too soon.

A mother or father that has abandoned you. Trying to cope, but feeling the pain, abandonment and hurt that has caused you.

A true love who has moved on in life with another.

A breath held, and a tear fallen is now what you have, because all else seems lost. You had no control over it, but now you have the pain of losing what you worked so hard to obtain.

You don't have to be happy. You can feel what you feel, and know that someday something will happen that will spark new life to you. If you have faith in just that, you can keep going.

Feel the pain now, and let yourself hurt for a little while,

but don't hold onto it with the same dead grip that others past have

Hold it,

Understand it,

feel it,

and then let go

Because now is the time that you can be strong again and find newness in this new day.