The most courageous thing you will ever do...and it will determine how you live...

Three words.  Just three.  And it will be the most courageous thing you will ever do...and it will determine how you live or not...

And they are hard words to say much less mean.  And only the courageous say them.  Only the people of character and strength and integrity ever utter those words.  Ever. Wars can be ended with those words.  Miracles happen with those words.  Life begins with these words.  The only words that ever, ever matter are the ones we live. 

Things didn't start off so well this morning.  Just did not.  And it is ok when your morning does not begin well as long as the day ends well. 

He has the mark of greatness and the humility that always underscores it.  He has integrity.  A character trait that has little value in today's culture.  He knows the miracle is not whether or not you fly in the air, but to walk gently on the earth.  Just walk.

He knows breathing always comes first. 

He knows that being your authentic self is the only way to really live.  Being someone else or atttempting to live up to someone's expectations or standards will always fail miserably.

He knows that we are all in this together for better or worse and shouldn't we just try to make it better.

He knows that living better always trumps living bitter.

He knows it is best to make friends with yourself, live in your own skin, fight your own demons intead of fighting everyone elses. 

He has learned to live fear from the terror of the ghosts of  the "what if's" and "if only's"

And he knows courage and he knows that the war we really fight is in our own souls...

He walks upright...he walks with humbly and he loves mercy...he loves mercy...

And he told me, "I am sorry..."

The three most powerful words in the English language are I am sorry...not I love you...for you can not even say love without being willing to say "I am sorry.." 
And yet we hardly ever utter them sincerely..ever..

But he does.  He does.  And he means it when he does.  He says the most powerful words on the planet...

And I will never forget.  And I am honored to know him. 

And those words cover a mulitude of sins...in fact...covers them all...

Thank you for challenging me and reminding me and blessing me and honoring me with the three most powerful words...

May we all never forget to say them....

All is grace and don't I have the coolest friends on the planet?

Kathleen