So many roads, So many choices, And it seems like i’ve chosen them all in this short life.

Sometimes, many times, I’ve chosen pain – sometimes immediate, sometimes remembered, always real.

I Chose to let the cd player of my mind run on one track all day – trying to hurt away the hurt,

Many times I chose fear, chose to shrink away from the world cloaked only in thoughts of disapproval, of not being good enough,

But today, I have no time for pain. I have no time for fear.

Don’t get me wrong. Its not because there are not things to hurt about or people who will disapprove. But because I know now, that there is ALWAYS another road. A road which I would much rather walk.

So today I choose peace. I choose to not judge the world, the people in it or the things that happen to me as good or bad. But simply to know that on a far deeper level than I can ever be aware – I am safe. I am held. I am worthy.

I will comfort my eyes by finding something beautiful in each thing i see. I will care the world with my hands, make love to it with my words, embrace it with my mind.

And throughout this day, I will continue to make life affirming choices.

I choose to dance, to let joy take me over completely and not worry for one moment about the ones who might see or judge.

I choose to breathe. I choose to breathe life in and to let it breathe me in.

I choose to laugh. Loud and long. At the world but mostly at myself for all the times ive taken life oh so seriously.

And most of all – I choose love. I choose to love myself. I choose to let friend and stranger become my love.

And when i walk into the world and see discord. I will look harder. I will look for beauty. I will look for peace. And I will find it. And when i meet hatred, I will open my heart so wide and let the sea of my love wash over it – till it melts away.

And when i see a man, woman or child in pain (whomever they be)- i will use my lifes energy to bring what healing I can. And if i cannot heal their pain, I will kneel down and wash their feet.

Today is a new day. And I choose Love.