The Owner of Your Destiny

Some of us are blessed to love our lives as they are.  And this, of course, is wonderful.  Some of us yearn for something more.  And this, of course, is natural.  But some of us are stuck in dark places, feeling like things are not as they are meant to be.  And this is a hard place to be.  But this place, the place of unhappiness, can be more than just a hard place; it can become quicksand.

Struggle in life is normal.  It is an essential component of growth and personal development.  Indeed, any person who never faces any struggle is a person who is not really living at all.  But struggle can become something far more serious if we lose touch with the most important personal anchor: That our lives belong to ourselves.

We can never, ever succumb to blaming other people for our own unhappiness.  For if we do this, we enter an emotional prison to which "someone else" holds the only key.

Think about this: If I have power over my own happiness, I have the keys to improve things when they go in a direction I don't like.  But if I convince myself that someone else is the gatekeeper of my happiness (translate: to blame for my unhappiness), well then I have allowed myself to become that person's emotional prisoner.

We each have the power, at each and every moment, to turn our lives in the direction of our deepest dreams and joy!  We just have to reach the place wherein we know, without any doubt, that this power lies within us.  Yes, it may take time — even years — to realize our deepest dreams and yearning.  But that journey starts right now, in this moment.  It starts with the choice to realize that our lives and our futures belong to ourselves.  Always.

Attached please find a Shu-Shine on the Torah portion of Korach - "The Owner of Your Destiny"

May we each be blessed to honor the space of the moment before us, and to own our individual choices on the pathway to our own dreams and aspirations.

With Love and a Smile,

~Shu