Dr. Viktor E. Frankl once wrote "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." This quote coming from a man who experienced life as a survivor of the Holocaust. I have experienced this moment he describes between a stimulus and the response. A moment I get to choose how I react. This is the hard part. To choose my reaction that is not a knee-jerk reaction.
Dr. Frankl also shared "What is to give light must endure burning." I realize more and more that the power of God is in the fact that love is that healing. To love with true compassion and caring has more power than the mightiest force on earth. Perhaps this is because our mortal bodies are temporary... but our spirits are eternal. I believe that is why Christ spoke and said in Matthew "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
So, tonight I focus on the quote in Proverbs that states "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" We are all not the victim of someone's reality. We choose and it starts with a single thought.
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