FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

 

When we love someone…with our whole body, soul and heart

We make a vow to love them, for better or for worse…until death do us part.

But what if we are meant to love everyone…no matter how different or diverse?

What if with every person we touch we have the opportunity…the choice…

to make their life a little better…or a little worse?

There are some things we cannot choose.. in life…that are written in the stars…

For instance…I didn’t choose to be born the person I am…

any more than you chose to be who you are.

I did not choose to be born…or the moment my life would begin…

I didn’t choose how tall I’d be, what foods I’d like…the color of my eyes or skin.

I didn’t choose to be straight anymore than others chose to be L, G, B or T.

I was not blessed, as the Native American’s believed, with two spirits inside of me.

But if you believe in a God…don’t you have to marvel at his or her creativity…

knowing…if I was born a different way…I would still be me. 

And if you were born a different way…a different gender…

if your eyes were brown instead of blue

you would still be who you are…you would still be you.

And here is where choice enters the equation…

if you believe the same God who created you…also created me

then you can choose to accept me, to love me, to hate me

or to simply let me be.

Every day as into this life on Earth we are immersed

we have a chance…a choice when we touch another person’s life

to make that life a little better…or a little worse.

Today I pray we all choose to make every life we touch a little better…

to enhance, enliven and strengthen every heart…

no matter how different or diverse we are from one another…

until…death do us part.