today, choose happiness.

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers." -Rilke

Lately, my heart has been aching for Cambodia, for Thailand & India...for all my friends around the world who are suffering.  I want all the answers, I want to find all the solutions.  I want to be everywhere at once.

But I cannot be all those things. 

I can only be here.  And being here means living fully into life in the US.  Luckily, I get to do something I LOVE every day. 

Is it always easy?  No.  But it is worthwhile. 

Take time to ask the hard questions, and take time to listen for the answers.  Search them out.  Dedicate your life to something worth doing.  Push through the hard times, the roadblocks, the naysayers.  Because this is what we were put on the planet to do.

From this vantage point, I cannot see the answers.  It is hard to imagine what the future holds.  But I will persevere.  I will continue loving those around me.  And despite the day to day challenges, I will choose happiness. 

...

The sun will rise
the sun will rise
bringing life to the earth
as it springs from the ground

The sun will rise
the sun will rise
won't you dry all your tears
lay your burden down

Lay your burden down

- The Brilliance