I choose peace

It's been a long year, a difficult year.  But I'm still here.  Very little has gone the way I wanted it to.  But I'm still here.  Nothing is really bad, it just is what it is.  Going to work, paying bills, spending a little time with family and friends here and there, (wish it was more).  Trying to "get healthy".  Trying to get prepared for whatever is coming.

Mostly, trying to find peace.

I'm tired.  I know others are tired also.  We are tired of politics, tired of the negativity, tired of the hate mongering.  I'm tired of people criticizing each other because we don't believe & think the same.  I don't care what color you are, I don't care what gender you are, I don't care what your belief system is.  That's all your business and not mine.  I don't mean to say I agree with you, or your choices, I probably don't, but that doesn't mean I have to hate you or be mean to you.  And it doesn't mean you have to hate me or be mean to me.  We will all pay the consequences for our choices, some will be immediate, some will be eternal.

Funny thing is, while I've been looking for peace out there, in the world, from others, from religion, etc., what I discovered is, my peace is not out there.

My peace is where I am now.  It's within me.  It's in the relationship I have with my Creator & Savior. It doesn't come from anyone or anywhere else.  Not from my family or friends, not from my job, not from my house or my pet.  It's not from or about any of those people or things.

It's about my choice to find peace and to hold on to it.  I can't help the choices that other people make.  I can't control the things that happen in the world.  If someone chooses to be stupid or mean or whatever, that's on them.  If the weather turns bad & damages something, well, it is what it is.  I hope you understand what I'm talking about?

All I can control is me, myself.  The only choices I can make are my own.

I choose peace.  I encourage you to choose peace also.  But there again, it's your choice.

Still, I choose peace.