Just What I Need

Mornin'

The cup of Joe is certainly just what I, like millions of Americans and humans around the world, need each morning (and sometimes throughout the day). But this is not what I need to make me a person who lives life on the spiritual plain. This job is reserved for the creative source that combines all my life experience to create a human being who can live life on life's terms without needing to control, manipulate, etc. anybody else to get what I want out of life.

My life today does not consist of using my character defects to create a life with self-center components at its core. Through my trials and tribulations, mistakes and successes, failures and triumphs, I have discovered that my success in life is simply contingent upon how I treat others and myself. If i can go to bed at night knowing that I was good to myself and all those I came in contact with for that day, my day has been successful. When I have not accomplished this, I must get up the next day and do it all over, making amends where I need to make them. The interesting thing about my quest to treat myself and others respectfully and nicely throughout the day is the impossibility with perfecting this ritual.

Being human excludes me from the realm of perfection. Therefore, I must keep it in my mind that I can only strive for this perfection and accept that progress is good on a daily basis. The prize for me is seeing the relationships in my life transform into something I could have only dreamed of just a few years ago. I really do enjoy the journey on a daily basis. It is exciting for me to rise in the morning and greet each day (sometimes it is difficult getting out from underneath the covers during the frigid winter mornings).

I hope this day brings positive change for you; that your relationships transform into healthier, happier gifts. If you struggle in any particular relationship, try thinking "How can I make this person's day just a little bit better?" It may involve words of kindness, or deeds to help make the other person's road less bumpy today. Whatever you decide to do, build your relationship from here on out on the foundation of love. The Great Spoiler works overtime to destroy us and our relationships. We are social beings and one of the best ways to bring down the human race is to fracture relationships. It occurs everyday here in America and throughout the world. Is this how wars begin? What about murder and other violent crimes? The core of all crime is always one of the seven deadly sins.

To affect change in the world, you must begin by changing relations with the people you contact daily. Whether your wife, significant other, child, friend, or neighbor, these relationships are the grass roots of change globally. I'm just saying.

Peace