Alive and free
I want to roam the earth and claim it as my home. I want to kiss the wind from shore to shore, to touch the face of the sky from the top of every mountain.
I want to be one with the flora and fauna in the land. Yes, I want to feel eternity as I live at peace with every single element in this vast universe, with all the people I meet along the stream of life, with myself as I conquer the most unconquerable being, and with my God who has made me always – alive and free!
Is happiness a choice? Is it a mere decision we can make at any situation, every step along the road of life? Can we always say that the glass of water given us is half full instead of being half empty? Can it be made full by believing that it is full when it is really not?
What shall we say to the beggar who has not eaten in three full days?
What shall we say to orphaned children whose parents were devoured by a dreaded disease, children who now roam the streets naked and helpless and lost?
What shall we say to the unloved, to those who have nobody to show them the way of compassion, sympathy and friendship?
What shall we say to the imprisoned when no real sin accuses them of their supposed crime?
Is it easy to decide to be happy? Is it even possible to find peace when a hurricane hovers about you, ready to tear you apart?
I am not saying that it isn't possible
I am not saying that we cannot
Yet say not so easily that happiness is a choice
and that at any point in time, we can choose to be happy
Say instead that we can choose to approach God Most High
and that we can enter His sanctuary
Say that we can surrender there
and let go of our tears
Say that we can ask for Grace, for Strength, and for Healing
For this we have a choice
and with this we can have Hope
Finally my friend, we can hold on to that Hope
and believe that we can find
what it is we're looking for.
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