Lease......

My Thought for the Day.......Do you realize we only lease our lives?  We rent our bodies?  We do not own them. We have varying beliefs, thoughts, and actions on our leases.  Some people take them more seriously than others. Some never even consider that one day our leases will expire. Leases end in all sorts of ways. For some, it is just the decision to stop paying the rent and move on...........for these souls the pain and hurt must be so deep and wide and endless that they see no other option.  You have never and will never walk in another's shoes, breath their air, nor know exactly why they keep or break their leases.  You will never ever feel the pain of anyone but you and to say otherwise is presumptuous and ignorant on your part.  Don't ever say," I know how you feel" because you DON'T!  It is said that life is for the living.....but it is my belief it is also for the dead. For at times the dead teach so powerfully that these lessons surpass anything we have ever experienced. Whether you lease a penthouse or a basement,  you do lease. Please take stock of everything and everyone that inhabits your space. Listen, seek, watch, speak, and most of all learn. With learning you teach.......what is your lease lesson telling the world?  

Shadow.....

My Thought for this Day.....Sometimes in life we all feel alone, forgotten, misunderstood, left out. But remember, even in our loneliness, we cast a long shadow. And in that shadow are memories, experiences, friends and family that are with us. The gift is to always believe in the shadow.

Thread....

My Thought for this Day......I wonder what you let change your heart?  Do you allow gossip to weave its thorny vine around it?  Do you look only at the superficial appearance of people and turn and walk away with a hardened heart?  Do you stereotype your fellow man by race and ethnicity, thus missing out on a wealth of histories and cultures?  Are you missing the melting pot of the human race?  Does your heart cry out "Not like me, so not good"?  Think long and hard about just exactly what you might be missing. You are a tiny speck in a huge eternal world.  Can't you see that if you put blinders on your heart, you are overlooking the absolutely enormous gift of life in all its millions of facets?  What a shame. Embrace yourself with a coat of many fabrics. Each thread is special. Each stitch is God made.

Life.......

My Thought for this Day......Life. You’ll have days of silence and days of noise. In your soul. You’ll have days of sadness and days of joy. In your heart. You’ll have days of tiredness and days of energy. In your body. You’ll have days of optimism and days of pessimism. In your mind. You’ll have days of steadiness and days of stumbling. In your steps. You are not alone in any of these conditions. You are human.

Compare......

My Thought for this Day.....Don’t compare. Don’t compare your experiences to someone else’s. Don’t compare your lifestyle, your material goods, your knowledge, your spirituality , your goals, your accomplishments. Don’t compare your despair. Comparison leads to either envy or arrogance. We all have a commonality of experiences, yet in our individuality we live them differently. We react differently. We mourn differently. We rejoice differently. We may walk the same path, yet we walk it our way. And that is the human experience. That is our experience.

Early....

My Thought for this Day........In the quietness of the early morning is when you need to say hello to life. The hard lines of the day have not appeared. Daily disappointments are not yet present. The world is soft in your soul. Be gentle with yourself at this time. Reality will come on its own. For a few breaths, softly whisper your morning salutation.

Angels.....

My Thought for this Day.....I think we can spend each and every day dwelling on the evil that is alive, well, and seemingly insurmountable in today's world. But instead, I choose to focus on the joy and strength of the human spirit. I choose to live with a clarity of sight, and  my eyes trained on the heavens and the surety that our mighty God sits on his throne. I choose to see me and my folks surrounded by invincible Angels, all tall in their stature and decked with the weapons of my Lord. I choose to not only believe, but know, that He will give me passage and if venom enters my world, He will give me the antidote with which to fight and win. I choose victory over loss.