More pure than any snow.

Personal Responsibility in the jungle out there called life is not for the weary. Not for the wretched. Not for the wronged. When the name of the game is wrong, what is anyone to do?

How much more can we take when there is already plenty to go around?

How much More can we learn if we simply stop, look and listen to what we alone are doing. To one another.

The four letter word? At this moment in time, it is so far away from hope. Have we become “too far gone?” Is there even a minute possibility we can agree to disagree? Humanly. Respectfully. Steadfastly.

Hate.

He weeps for our consciences when we choose to do the wrong thing, take the easy way out. We may only weep because we “got caught.”

The battle becomes the wide open sea of change that never changes. Saturation becomes the deluge of more hate, excuses and violence.

How can the tide change?

Will it ever change? For the better. Or at least for the least bad. The suffering suffer in private and public ways. Who are we to add to the pointless baggage of the revenge?

To do only what is necessary is no longer civil. The stakes have grown so high and the empathetic attitudes have disappeared into a haze of riots, looting, vile speech and worst of all the intention to take another life.

May God have mercy on us all.

We should only thank Him humbly that His mercies are new every day.

Yet. We hedge. We gamble. We choose to live to excess in our “rightness” and become so wrapped up in it so tight we forget we may be in the wrong.

Make no mistake.

The answer is anything but easy. We can choose to travel light. With inclusion of our personal thoughts, feelings, visions, preconceptions. What, then comes of us? What does it all mean? (pf)

Pointless baggage. Directionless souls.

We carry the weight of the world on our shoulders of hate of another with provocation and arrogance. We hold so, so tightly that we are right, the prize becomes elusive. The prize is lost in the bottom of the cereal box.

Secrets.

Hearsay.

The importance of conscience and its practical application to the principle of equity.

Reminder: We are all created equal in His eyes. Every day. We are only allowed the opportunity to receive His mercies if we step out of ourselves and our soul-filled miseries.

Peoples lives are at stake.

No one person’s life is more valuable than another. But. Boy oh boy can we create a mess of our own insecurities, expectations and paths of least resistance.

What happens? A society wherein we smile outwardly at one another and carry the option of contempt deeper within our gut. When we feel weak, we fire off one liners, one punch, one shot.

In the hope of what? Utopia?

The relationship between utopia and dystopia is in actuality.

Actuality. Not one simple opposition. Many utopian elements are found in dystopias as well, And vice versa. Declining or denying a life is an attempt at playing God.

A decline in society to prove we are less than is not the answer. Denying one an opportunity of free thought does not a shot allow. Complete control over another does not exist in the eyes of God.

It does not exist in the eyes of God.

No matter how quickly we blast off a message of excuse, innuendo and hate.

Sad.

We talk through other means of communication because we have lost the ability to be civil. Worse. We smugly feel that once our message leaves our fingertips, we are no longer responsible. For what we have done. What we have failed to do. What we have done to another.

Thank you God, through your son that your offer mercies to us for a new day.

But.

The finger pointing must cease. Stop. The point, aim and shoot is never the answer. The answer lies within us. Our own souls. Remember, that under neath the smile we show the world, we hold another’s good graces as close to our heart as we hope they may hold ours.

With love, grace and kindness. As He teaches us every day through mercy.

There are no guarantees in life. Gamblers gamble for a reason. Contradictions abound about perspectives of “the good life.” True nobility is attainable. Optimate principles exist for a reason. Division should not be the main arrogant point.

Neither should hate of our fellow man. Any fellow man. We are responsible for our own actions.

We need steadfast courage and a fight in the battle. A desire greater beyond our own that the progress of life is not built on hate and undermining.

It is quite simple. He gave us the best book of lessons and principles. We need to pay attention to what we are doing. Focus.

Fight like there is no tomorrow because tomorrow is only held in the palm of His hand. For any of us.

Smile though your heart is aching.

”Those who fight the good fight and win need to be brave only once. Those who lose must show courage twice. So we must steel ourselves for harder things than triumph.” (wjb)

Let others cheer the winning man,

There’s one I hold worthwhile;

’Tis he who does the best he can,

Then loses with a smile.

Beaten he is, but not to stay

Down with the rank and file;

That man will win some other day,

Who loses with a smile.

In this fast paced world, conversations abound minute by minute. What we don’t know becomes the bargaining chip of what we wish we knew. In our greatest fears and scariest of moments, before it is too late.

Thank God He keeps His hand on us all. Helps us recognize our place in this world and nudge us to get to the work of peaceful transition of the life He meant us to live for one another.

Peace. Kindness. Healthy competition.

And. The personal responsibility to win gracefully when the fight has been nothing short of ugly.