Trust me on this one…I get it. For a lot of people out there this economy is like “The Nightmare on Your Street”. People are losing their jobs or their hours are getting cut. People losing houses, health insurance, and most importantly self esteem. There are people who have done incredibly thoughtless or even criminal things to drive our economy into the ground. Those people should be held accountable…but that ain’t gonna pay your mortgage or rent next week…trust me I get it. President Obama keeps saying that things will probably get worse before they get better. Or that it’s going to take some time before the ‘Stimulus Plan’ begins to yield results, but that in time it will help us. None of our politicians seem to understand that we the people have to actually survive to three or four or God forbid eight years from now. Our car payments, rent, groceries, and kid’s college tuition will not wait for the Stimulus Plan to kick in. Those things demand money right now…trust me…I get it. All this is true…so now what?
Recognizing or even bitching about the rotten ass hand our elected officials have dealt us will not pay one single solitary bill for anyone. What it will do is make us more mad, more hopeless, and still up the damn creek without a paddle, or maybe even without a canoe. So now what? One of the things that makes life so difficult in the tendency to live anywhere but where we are right now. By that I mean we worry about what happened to us yesterday, the day before or even twenty years ago. We also like to worry about tomorrow. The problem with this is that not matter what, we can ONLY live right now…in this moment. Right now in this moment we can make a choice, and that is where our power can be utilized.
One of the greatest things we can do for ourselves is to be responsible for where we are in life. When we are having a really tough time, taking responsibility for that can be extremely difficult. It is always easier to blame someone or something else for our troubles…and I do understand that. However there is power in responsibility…that is… the ability to respond. So what we need to do as individuals and by extension as a nation is to take responsibility for where we are at. Then we can make choices about how we can improve upon our situation. Without our consent the future will indeed come…and it will go. The question is what will you and I do with the time between now and then. The choices we make today and everyday are what will shape our future. That is the power of taking responsibilty. If we are responsible for our difficulties, then we can also be responsible for our success.
We are creative beings of unimagined possibilities. We cannot fathom the spectacular things we can achieve, because there really are no limits to our potential. I believe we are made in the image of God. and that doesn’t mean we look like God. I think we have god-like super human capabilities. We can summon that power, by having faith in our own greatness, and opening our minds and hearts to the infinite wisdom of the universe. Then we can use that creative power to make whatever kind of life we want to have.
So now what? Let’s all resolve to face our challenges head on. The great dragon will cower when you look it in the eye. Challenges, even seemingly impossible ones, cannot withstand the withering offensive of a determined will to overcome them. I said it before “Obama can’t save you”, neither can the government stimulus plan. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can save yourself. That’s what I’m gonna do.
Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH
