At the End of Your Rope

A Chinese court sentenced prominent human rights activist
Xu Zhiyong to four years in prison on Sunday after he campaigned
for political transparency and the right for poor children
to be educated

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- Thomas Jefferson

There are those that choose in life to help others and those that choose to help only themselves.

There are those that choose to condemn, and those that choose to uplift.

We all touch each others lives in small ways and some times in big ways.  We are a diversified world, full of different people, different races, and different kinds of thinking.  How we choose to treat others dictates our world.  Our small actions, one small word can make or break some one's day and in some cases, some one's life.  Words can be powerful tools in helping to heal or powerful words to tear someone down.

Many of us have experienced both sides, those that uplift and those that condemn.  Sometimes when our lives seem full of the people that act selfishly and without regard for others, it makes our already difficult lives even harder.  Our hearts then tend to grow colder and our emotional walls, higher.  Yet if there is to be change somewhere and at sometime in our world, it must begin with each of us in each moment we make a decision.  Start now by choosing words to uplift and not condemn.  Choose to help instead of looking away and choose to make a difference even though those around you may choose to try and hold you down.

Today I salute those brave enough to stand in their truth.  To those courageous enough to speak out against injustice and to those strong enough to hold their ground.  We all want to be treated kindly, fairly and we all want to be loved.  If you are on a slippery slope, have been put to the test, I salute you.  To all of you reading that have taken an extra step to make someone's day brighter or to speak out against injustice and have been fighting a fight that seems endless and sometimes hopeless, you should know you matter.  Every life, every spec of dust makes a difference.  Even a spec of dust can wreak havoc if you get it in your eye.  If it lands and makes the ground fertile, however, it can make our lives easier.  So to the soldiers of love that stand in truth, that try to make a difference, that are searching for someone to hear them, for someone to love them, I dedicate this video to you:  You are loved (Don't give up)