December's Sun

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you; be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others may destroy overnight; create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today will often be forgotten; do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it may never be enough; give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

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Within the darkness is a powerful attraction that pretends to offer certain comforts; the yearnings you’ve hungered so very long for. Truly, it needs you more than anything so it can feed off of desperations and neglected dreams.

While it nurses from your soul, draining away its vibrant, limitless energy, you are distracted by the hatred, regret and hurt dealt by others while ensnared by its gaze; the blackened pit ever so deep as you fall, losing all reason. There is no end to this and even when you are running on empty it latches on; grasping ever so tightly into your sensitive, raw flesh. The addiction is mutual.

A pure source of fear, it too fears that your stare may break from its own, leaving it alone and ever hungry, starving in an abyss of other creatures that offer no comforts to fill its belly with. The need in you is strong to love and to bring goodness to those around you. This is the repulsive source of sustenance it cannot digest and will quickly distress the grip it once held upon you.

Despite the alluring stare of this graceful blackness dancing with a soothing hypnotic rhythm, the slight turn of your gaze cuts it free, placing it back into the prison it brought upon you. With your focus firmly on spreading kindness you travel well beyond the reaches of emptiness only to find a fulfillment that brings peace.

In despair nothing awaits you
 Tyson

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What does it take for us to open our eyes to what truly is important? Sometimes it seems that we just don’t get it. I believe often we just don’t know how. Like frightened children searching for acceptance and love.

As I sat next to an ailing relative with whom I respect and who’s company I enjoy this past Sunday, I realized that reasons that have brought him to this state; slowly deteriorating, are patterns similarly followed by myself. Living life in a frequency that does not resonate well with my own. The body begins to show signs of wear; battle-scars if you will. We all fear the worst while hoping for the best.

It is amazing what we put ourselves through on a daily basis just to make ends meet when so much of our vital self falls to the sideline. It pains me to see this highly intelligent, soft-spoken man wither away as the meat hook drags him up the corporate ladder ready at any time to drop you into the grinder.

Where is that sense of family and community? Why are two salaries required to “get by”? Why are the highways congested with angry individuals rushing to pass another day? Why do we drone on with no connection to our land and food? How do we sit so comfortably when we support the murder and slavery of third world countries?

No one is going to win this race and what does it matter when the race isn’t even worth winning?

Peace
Tyson

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