"TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED"
It is through your ability, your God-given right, to choose, that you gain strength. It is the power of decision which sets the aspirant apart from the complacent. The choices one makes defines his or her reward upon the paths of destiny, and woe unto those who do not possess the fortitude to define a question or make a choice, because that one is dead in the eyes of the Universal Mind, even though he continues to walk this earth as though alive. Those afraid to question are dead ... because they are afraid to make a choice, and they can proffer no hand in the universal plan - a plan where all are required to act upon the grand stage of higher consciousness.
Control you thoughts; do not become discouraged in the face of dooms malice. Do not become those who portray the "Woe is me" persona; for all have, at one time or another, been touched by the phantoms of tragedy. It might be the loss of a loved one, a financial downfall, a broken heart, a bedridden illness, or an unwarranted accusation. All have known or will know sorrow, all will wed misfortune, and all will become discouraged. Yet know this: at those moments when all seems to have conspired against your happiness, your are not being cursed, but challenged. Challenged to confront yourself, challenged to confront the old, challenged to usher in the new, challenged to stand where others have fallen, challenged to live when others have chosen not to, challenged to overcome.
It is in these extreme times of horror, despair, and adversity that one chooses to become stronger or to become broken. Know ye this, greatness only comes to those who overcome cataclysmic misfortune, not to those who choose solace upon a river of choices swam by those before them. Be warned, comfort causes one to fear change, to avoid the flames of possibility, this is weakness, because all that the weak desire is that there be no deviation to their routine, this so that they can continue to live their lives without risk of questions or the responsibility of opinions born of their own birthing.
The brave, however, shoulder that which they are with laughter and set ablaze that which is comfortable, they striving for the next challenge. They spurn that which does not meet the criteria of their own logic, even at the great cost of strife and suffering. These ones will abandon all held sacred by the masses, if convinced it beneficial to their destiny. The brave among us are reckless, fearless, and destined.
From heaven, the Universal Mind (God) looks upon these ones in possession of courage with love, with hope, and with prosperity. It is true, the Universal Mind has no need for automatons or the spiritual cowards fearing to utilize the gift of free will. In truth, heaven despises those who easily stoop their knee in subjection and skewers those who walk that cowardly path. In the final analysis, it is this gift of choice that separates humankind from the mindless worm plying it blind life upon its belly, limited to an infinitely small portion of overall consciousness. It is this capacity to choose that is righteousness, and to refuse to so do out of fear is the "unforgivable" sin.
Only those who have risen above doubt and defeat can know the unknowable.
Only those with courage to question will not fall prey to false doctrine. To be a leader here is to be a leader there. Your time is here. Stand and be counted!
Excerpt from my book, "A Poet Dreams" (page 92)
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Perdurabo. Mayor Mark
Bastrop, TX 8/9/2026