Today is Tuesday. Sometimes our past, our backgrounds, previous experience can determine our lived realities. Our yesterdays decide our todays. I spent my early years in South Africa, and most of the time I still sound like one. Well, we South Africans pronounce the word Tuesday, as choosday (not toosday!).
This is a day to choose. Choose life, choose hope, choose faith, choose love. I say this is a day to choose to believe the best. Today is a day to choose to not sit back and do nothing.
Choice is powerful. It empowers. Choice is a pair of reigns that every person can choose to hold in their hands.
Sometimes choosing is about deciding how to respond to things that happened yesterday. In all of the yesterdays. Realizing that our yesterdays really don't have to decide our todays. Choosing to believe that tomorrow can, and will be different to today. But not without coming to a point of decision.
I am on the journey of learning to not default to thinking that things have to remain the way that they have always been. No! There is choice involved. And if no one else is going to decide, then I will.
I am not okay with injustice in my backyard. I am not content to sit around while my neighbour has an uncertain tomorrow.
In the weeks between South Africa and my adventure in the North, I am spending time with people I love in a few different places.
Being in such a variety of contexts has got me thinking: really, who isn't my neighbour?
Today is a chance to choose to not only live for your own - your own happiness, safety, comfort, fulfillment.
Let's choose.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
My walk, my talk.
This evening I went for a walk with my dog, Toby, in the bit of forest near my parents house in Barrie. I got thinking about how much I enjoy breathing with the trees. I know the feeling of being in the forest, being near water... in clean air changes the way I see things.
Sometimes it is important to change the way I see things. Sometimes it is important to really see things. Once I have seen something, once something has come to my attention, I could never live like I dont know. What I'm referring to is not turning a blind eye or burying my head in the sand - to talk in the way that people like to talk.
Instead, letting the world that I experience, affect the way I live. My walk, my talk.
Unstopping my ears to injustice. But more than that: unstopping my walk to injustice. How could I choose to live like I didnt know? I could. I know many do. Sometimes I did before.
But not today, and not tomorrow.
I spent this past weekend with friends, old and new. The kind of friends that help you realize that you don't need to hide. I realized that I don't need to find my voice. I just need to speak. So, I will speak. I will speak for justice. I will walk justice. I will speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. I will speak loudly, sometimes I might need to shout. I will roar.
Sometimes it is important to change the way I see things. Sometimes it is important to really see things. Once I have seen something, once something has come to my attention, I could never live like I dont know. What I'm referring to is not turning a blind eye or burying my head in the sand - to talk in the way that people like to talk.
Instead, letting the world that I experience, affect the way I live. My walk, my talk.
Unstopping my ears to injustice. But more than that: unstopping my walk to injustice. How could I choose to live like I didnt know? I could. I know many do. Sometimes I did before.
But not today, and not tomorrow.
I spent this past weekend with friends, old and new. The kind of friends that help you realize that you don't need to hide. I realized that I don't need to find my voice. I just need to speak. So, I will speak. I will speak for justice. I will walk justice. I will speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. I will speak loudly, sometimes I might need to shout. I will roar.
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