Choose Love

At the End of the Day
it's about love.

It's about loving yourself
and making the right choices
for yourself
and loving others enough
to put yourself aside
sometimes.

It's about loving yourself enough to
love people
when they've let you down.

It's about seeing the
broken, hurt,
painful world we live in and
deciding to care.

It's about walking down that street,
head up,
gaze firm,
shoulders back
because there is no fear inside you...
just love.

It's about making eye contact
with that stranger
or giving the man in the
Quick Trip parking lot your
last dollar bill
you were saving for your 2:00 Mountain Dew
back at the office.

It's about loving the broken
(and that's everyone).
That man who beat you,
that wife who cheated on you
and that school aged bully that gave you
nightmares.
It's about holding them
accountable in your heart for the pain they caused
and then loving yourself enough
to love them still.

This is not easy.

But at the end of the day,
Hokey Pokey aside,
that's what it's all about.

We all operate from a place of
fear or
love.

Choose love.