Life is changing! Finally feels like for the better predominantly. I am so grateful for the love and support and the opportunities I've been given. But as it is with change, there has to be room for the new, and some old stuff has got to go.
One final expensive lesson was learned this week. Truly it is a small price to pay, in order to stop being an imaginary villain for someone that I used to know. More than anything though, it makes me sad for that person. I have moved on, and I am moving forward. The past is the past, and all is forgiven, and nothing in the past is healthy to dwell on, or cary with you as baggage.
There is a Garth Brooks song that says "failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned" These are truly words to live by. This world is full of so much hurt and hate, I don't want to take part in keeping those things alive by holding grudges. We are not guaranteed any time in this life. I don't want my last words or thoughts to be ones filled with anger or pain.
I want to encourage people to live in Spirit, Truth and Freedom. If I want to accomplish that, I must live authentically! I must cary a spirit of love and grace. True freedom is from a place of Grace, acceptance and humbleness. Anger, and holding on has no place in bringing any of the above mentioned things. In fact it hurts not only the beholder, but those who come into contact with that sort of toxic state of being. Why waste another moment being weighed down by the joy stealing, hope and happiness crushing, power of anger and unforgiveness. You my friends deserve better. You deserve better not because you have earned it, but because it is a free gift that is offered in order to free you from that sort of oppression. You have to be willing to accept it though. It isn't magic. It isn't mind and soul altering unless you reach out and embrace that freedom. It is like being in jail holding the keys. The jailer handed You the keys because You are free to go. Someone paid your bail. You could die in jail and never escape, or you can use that key and walk out a free person. But it is your choice, cause the keys were given to you,so that you could chose.
As humans we struggle with this concept. Since we live in a damaged world, we have trouble wrapping our minds around anything that didn't cost us something. No free lunches and all that. But what if we gave hatred and anger a run for its money? What if we looked at each moment as a choice to feed the good wolf or the bad wolf inside us? My native American ancestors knew a thing or two about how to survive as a race and culture. They for sure never took for granted the weight of the consequences of each action.
I don't know if anyone will ever read this post. Heck I write for my own personal growth. But I hope and pray that those who are maybe in the same place as I am will find my words as peaceful encouragement to keep going down this narrow road. The struggle is real, but so is the rewards for the peace that comes from being true to truth. Your soul will thank you
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