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.
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