How's It Going For You?

Yesterday, today, tomorrow: all melt together as if they were a Salvador Dali painting.  Our memories fade. Yet, vignettes remain and we form our own blanket of reality from these patchwork images. So, the questions become: What do we remember? What do we create?

The options are seemingly endless. Every memory can be tweaked in any direction. Life is not just a series of events. Rather, we truly are authors of our own stories. Do we choose to become embittered or emdued with joy?  Do we choose to forgive others and ourselves?  Do we choose to focus on what others have not done for us or on what others they done for us?

Remarkable - isn't it?  Small choices making a big difference. I am not advocating we repress, deny, ignore the ugly events. Rather, I am advocating that we turn our minds to love and tolerance. True tolerance, true forgiveness, true love. 

Is your blanket keeping you warm and cozy or is it leaving you cold and raw?

COEXIST

Melancholy.  A friend just sent me a text today saying that she was coexisting with melancholy today.

She is a great friend and has helped me delve into my emotional abyss.  Our recent sojourn was spent on exploring how to express the idea of being of two minds at the same moment in time, e.g., how I could feel happy and depressed simultaneously.  So, we decided that it was really a matter of coexisting with two emotions.  Both emotions have a place within in my being - but, in fact, I should type “BUT,” I am determined not to let the sad emotion take reign.  It can hang out and move through the necessary process - as it must - in order to find resolution.  

Some of you know that this photo was captured when Julie and I spent our last moments together.  Shortly afterwards, Julie passed away.  Both of knew that it would probably be so, but we had hope that the story of her life would end differently.  We were coexisting with hope and sadness.

Often, people will talk about how wonderful someone was - even if we know it is the not truth.  This is not the case with Julie.  She was a living example of true Christianity to those who met her.  Imperfect?  Yes.  Saintly?  Yes.  She left us behind - unwillingly.  She passed away - peacefully.

If we spend our time hating and causing discord, then we learned nothing from her example.  Stop the madness.  Be determined to let love reign.  Coexist with melancholy and joy.