pain

I love the Bill Withers song, "Lean on Me."

Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow.
But if we are wise, we know that there's always tomorrow.

click here to listen to the song on youtube

I think that everyone in this life will find some pain and trauma.  The question is, will we wallow in it?  Will we let it define us?  Or will me make the choice to move on to a better tomorrow.

I think that at our worst, we act out of our pain and trauma.  All this does is spread around the pain.  It shares our pain with others who do not need it and probably do not deserve it.  And it is very hard to live a life of kindness when we are acting out of our pain.

There is a better way.

What if we stopped ourselves.  Take a step back.  Gather yourself.  Pray.  Choose to not hurt back.  Remember who you are.  Then act.  Put your best foot forward.

It is never too late to begin a journey of love.  We can learn to live differently.  We can learn to act differently.  We don't have to be bitter.  We can choose to become better.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.

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