Your choice

You are the author of your own life story.  You, not any other human being, as the power, the control and the ability to decide how you respond to life, life’s issues and life’s hurdles. 

Mark Twain wrote “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

November, December and sometimes January are months that most people seem to have a bit more jump in the step, a bit more forgiving and walk around with open eyes, ears and hearts.  Too often it seems that just after January we go back to “life as we know it”, you know…  eyes, ears and hearts a little more closed, less jump in our step and a bit less forgiving.

Why is that?  Christmas is so commercial I think that there are some who celebrate the holiday as a traditional Christian Holiday, some celebrate it has a holiday to spend in the name of love, family and friends, others may just go through the motions of it being a day to exchange gifts with no special meaning.

All of that aside, why is it that the “spirit” that many share with others is so intensified, glorified and witnessed in November, December and January more than most any time of the year?  How can we keep some of that “love” around the other 9 months of the year?  Why can’t the spirit be acknowledged in military meetings, foreign relation meetings, interviews, people passing in the street, family dinners, couples living, children playing, people working… every human being living!?

I think part of the “Christmas spirit”, regardless of your spiritual, faith or religious belief, includes forgiving, accepting and loving: yourself and others.  Letting go of anger, resentment, and hurt and allowing forgiveness, love and healing to takes its place can be powerful and rewarding for us all.  Accepting ownership for our own faults, mistakes and shortcomings and realizing that we are in fact beautiful, loved and worthy, just the way we are can be the change in our life that is needed to help open new doors, see things never before seen and experience life in new ways.

Each of us as the ability to make those choices, changes and meet those challenges.  We can be the change we seek in this world. and in ourselves.  One day.  One journey.  One person.  One story at a time.

Royal D. Bush serves as a Multifaith Chaplain with Inclusive Life.  He studied at Andersonville Theological Seminary, and with the International Institute of Faith Based Counseling.  He also holds a Bachelor Degree in business administration. Chaplain Royal shares two important messages: You are beautiful, you are loved and you are worthy, just the way you are.  And: Now is time in this world that every human being is called to life up the weak, offer a hand UP to the impoverished, cherish our elders and stand up for the oppressed.  Chaplain Royal is available in Omaha for premarital coaching, couples coaching, life coaching and pastoral care.  He is also here to help with marriage ceremonies, end of life planning and funerals.

Inclusive Life offers both nondenominational and nonreligious care-serving all, without exception!   Inclusive Life offers Wedding Ministers, Premarital Coaching, Couples Coaching, Funeral Ministers, End of Life Planning, Pastoral Care, and Pathways Worship.

To reach Chaplain Royal or Chaplain Beth please email info@inclusivelife.org OR phone

402-575-7006. 105 S. 49^th Street Omaha, NE and 500 Willow Ave Council Bluffs, IA. 

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