Confidnce to overcome can be your biggest obstacle

Life is always moving, always changing and shaping us and then destroying us the way children create sandcastles and then stomp them into nothingness. To live today as a properly functioning and contributing member of our society takes a heaping helping of patience and stamina but unfortunate for us all this is not found on blue light special at the local Kmart. Where, then, do we find the will to carry on when everything else seems so much more formidable a foe than the monsters under our bed?

As you read this I want you to sit calmly, take a deep breath in through your nose and hold it for a moment, just long enough to feel the air fill your lungs. Visualize this life sustaining oxygen as strength, the power to continue on against all odds. Slowly release the air through your mouth with controlled effort at a steady yet gentle pace. Your control is a conscious power to only allow what you need to release go through you, yet you retain all the energy and power to live. Every breath in brings knowledge and every time we exhale we release negativity and pain so as to only keep within us that which is neccessary.

At the very core of  all of us is an innate sense of wonder to touch life and shape it with our own efforts into something beautiful to share with those around us. Whether our strengths lie in art or in how we can help others through support and encouragement or even just an ear to bend their way, we all are born with the capacity to love and be loved.

It is our duty in life to rise above the influence of that which would steer us wrong. Hate, crimes against our fellow man and pettiness are all so prevalent in our world today and yet there still remains a glimmer of hope for love is so powerful that it will never die. Even when we are afraid of the consequences, true strength is in standing up for the good in the world and  joining together to spread it's influence. We must keep faith that when the voice of one gathers to it the hands of many great works can be achieved to change the world.

Balancing right and wrong may seem, to some, a common sense thing to do but humans are not perfect beings and can fall to the trap of the glamor of popular thought. When you turn on the news or read the evening paper we see so much hate and pain going on in the world everywhere, from the war over seas to right here at home. When you turn the pages, however, you still find small articles about the good our society pulls together to achieve and that shows that even when the power of hate is great the strength of the heart is much greater.

We must love even when the heart is hurting. We must live, even when we feel our worlds are quaking. We must believe even when we cannot see that which our hearts feel is right. Then and only then will we ever own the divine power within us all to carry on. To be strong when the world is hell bent on weakening our reslove to exist we must rise above. Be the tide, not the sand.