No More!

by Faye
(Canada)

There’s enough hurt, and enough pain in the world; I want to hear you say, “NO MORE!” No more will you contribute to it, no more will you add to it, if you can possibly help it. Then help it. Decide that you know what it feels like to be hurt, to be in pain, and that you will never hurt, will never consciously cause pain again. Then do it.

There is only one person in this world that you can change. Change yourself, and watch the world respond. Decide you don’t care how many times, how many people hurt you, you will not hurt another! Take control of your own actions, your own life. Own them! One at a time. Baby steps. Step by step. Take back your own life. And then, you will really have something worthwhile to give God if He ever asks you to “lay it down for Him.”

(Inspirational writing 1996)