This is my life to live.
No one else can live my life.
No one else can relate to my pain, my sorrow, or my joy. Our circumstances may appear similar but the way I respond, the effects on me, are different than on any other person.
My joy is unique. My heartache is unique. My desire is unique.
You will find no one else quite like me.
In this divine uniqueness I embrace my life.
I can say that...
I have experienced the thrill of being on the heights of victory and felt the sting of failure, failure in others as well as in my own eyes. I have loved and I have had that love rejected. I have hoped and have had hopes crushed. I have seen the rising up of men only to see them fall. I have drank from the cup of bitterness and hate to simply dull the taste of pain that was lingering on my tongue. I have dreamed and I have doubted. I have possessed the boldness of a roaring lion and have seen myself cower in fear. I have been unleashed and tamed. I have revealed while still possessing so much that others may never know. I have smelled the fresh air that can only be found on the mountaintops and have also gasped for breath in the jail cell of my own making. I have heard God so clearly and yet I have found room for doubt. I have seen and have yet felt so blind. I have beheld men but have wondered what true manhood really holds. I think of life and I sometimes awake to the realization that someday I will die.
I have lived!
I embrace my life. I love this life.
I know rejection as a close friend. Sorrow has held me at night. Joy has filled my heart with singing. Hope has been my companion through our never ending game of hide-n-seek.
I embrace joy with sorrow, victory with defeat, strength with struggle, for I know that this is my life. There is no other life like mine. No one has and no one ever will live this life again.
My life is beautiful. I will take the good with the bad. The comfort with the pain. The joy with the sorrow. This is life. I would have it no other way.
My life us unique, and so I will give it as a gift to the world.
Here is my life. Do as you will with me.
I hope that you will find it, in life and in death, a clear picture of all that is beautiful, of all that is good, of all that is right, of all that is blessed of God.
It is my choice what I do with my life. You will not make that choice for me.
I will love.
A Declaration of a Blessed Man
