Opportunities for victimhood

Abound.A never-ending supply, it seems.Even on your strongest dayYour heart can find reasonsTo whineTo magnify unfairnessTo abdicate responsibility.Rising above victimhoodIs a continuous choiceA moment by momentPosture of heart,Reminding yourselfAgain and againOf the version of your storyWhere you are wholeAnd wholesome,Steady on your feet,Buoyant in your heartDetermined in your spiritThat despite the famines you’ve facedAnd the […]

White washing

Life is complex.And that complexityIs often hard to sit with,To look it in the eyeTo give it a name.We don’t always feelThe way we think we shouldAnd reality routinely ignoresThe scripts our minds write for it,So we find ourslvesSitting with things in our lapsThat are deeply familiarYet disturbingly beyond us,And too often choose to plunge […]

Getting to great

Wonderful thingsDon’t materializeIn our soulsOvernight.Character requires thatThat life itself happens to us Before it coalesces.Life demands livingFirsthand,Not vicariously through a bookAnd not on the fence, observing others-No safe zones Where the minutes don’t matter. We cannot liveAnyone else’ lifeNo matter how hard we try.Our greatnessWill come along the wayOn the path of the mundane In […]

Who you become along the way

Is just as important as what you are hoping for. There is nothing as pitiful as not having The appropriate palate to savour the goodness You have been longing for, To die of thirst at the foot of a fountain, To have a masterpiece in your hands Yet struggle to see the beauty before you. […]

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As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -Proverbs 23:7

wisdom

Opportunities for victimhood

White washing

Getting to great

Who you become along the way