Beginning the Change

So now that I have promised all 5,000 of my imaginary followers that I will be changing, I guess I need to show some kind of follow-up to it. I guess. First off, I will be honest in saying that week 1 was a dud. After the excitement of starting a new blog and moving forward wore off I sunk back into my comfortable routine. No change has taken my life by storm...yet.

I spoke with my sisters today and saw their comments on my Peak Ohana blog (kawehis.blogspot.com) and thought "I need to keep going". Sarah, sister #2, shared an awesome poem with me that you may recognize from the movie "Invictus".

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul. 

After some pondering (aka, deeper thinking than just a minute) I began to think about who really dictates the choices I make in my life. Do I allow myself to consciously make positive decisions that lead me to destinations that I desire? What is it that I truly desire? Which horizons do I seek? Who is the captain of my soul?

This week my goal is to get my spiritual life back on track. Get my scripture study back to existence, prayer back to existence and worshipping God back to existence.

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul"

Mabs