Making a Choice

Dear Friends,

How often do we hear that we have a choice? Most of us know that it is easy for someone else to tell us that we have a choice - when we are in the throes of resentment, or anger, or thinking we have to say "yes," when we want to say no.

Every single choice we make goes deeper than these things, however. Every day, we ultimately must choose between fear and anger, silence or the loud voices inside our heads, between what others think we should do and what we feel best serves our deeper truth. We can choose to be angry with someone forever - a choice which harms us more than them - or we can choose to feel the anger, speak our truth, and then move ahead, free from the anger and with having to have it our way.

We can choose to be controlled completely by our feelings by ignoring them and thinking we are completely rational in all of our choices, or we can choose to feel our feelings, to discover what they are communicating to us about ourselves, and then to let them go.

Every moment holds a choice. We can live in the past or the future, or we can choose to live in the present. Fear or love. Dark or light. Compulsion or freedom.

What will it be for you today?
Warmly,
meb