"Merry Christmas and Holy Nights"

"I Refuse"

I refuse to believe that you can not make a difference.

I refuse to believe one person can not change their world.

I refuse to believe you must be “normal” to be accepted.

I refuse to believe history is made by the masses, rather than the few.

I refuse to believe that one person can not change that history.

I refuse to believe that you are destined to be only what others tell you to be.

I refuse to believe everything I see, hear, feel, taste and smell.

I refuse to believe that your “sixth sense” does not outweigh the other five.

I refuse to believe that one person can not do what it dreams as impossible.

You believe what you want to believe. We all share in our own lies. Mine is not the path most traveled. It has always been the trace of another’s footsteps that caught my eye. That made me think there might be, just might be, a better way, a more fruitful path, than one the masses herd to. Nothing wrong with that, but we all have our own streets to pave. For us to think that the great history makers and world shapers we have had since the beginning did not at some point feel grief and despair is shallow in thought.

How would history be if Washington decided it was too cold to cross, if Custer would have retreated, had Patton taken a couple days off, had Lincoln not gone to the play, had Kennedy not gone to Dallas, had Martin not gone to Memphis, had John Lennon not gone for a walk, had Neil Armstrong never stepped, had Lance Armstrong never thought he’d live, had it not been foggy over Martha’s Vineyard for John John, had the Apostle Paul ever truly questioned his faith, or had Christ been tempted by the devil…course we know that was a losing battle on satans part, as always. 

And the list goes on and on. You have your memories and I have mine. If you are like me, no matter how many you list, you always think of more to add.

I refuse to believe that world changers & world changing events are not pre-destined by lots cast by God.  The greatest history gifted & shared with this world being Jesus Christ.  But, with His Son’s exception, who was beyond mortal…all the other events & people in our world history could have gone different than they, or it did.  

Think of it this way….If 10 cooks are all given the same ingredients & told to make their best chicken cacciatore…all the dishes will mostly likely look, smell & taste a bit different…but the outcome is the same…chicken cacciatore.  All those listed above thought they could make a difference in their world(s). For if they didn’t, it would never have been. So…I refuse to believe that I too, can not make a difference in the world around me, no matter how small or large that world may be. 

God created Paradise in the beginning & in the end we are promised a return to this Paradise.  The ingredients are the same, the outcome was foretold long, long ago.

Today is Christmas. Give yourself the best gift you could ever give yourself or someone else. For once in your life believe in your self and your abilities and feel good about it. And in turn let that feeling rub off on someone and help make them believe that they can make a difference in their world as well.

If we all thought more positive and less negative, the end result is destined to be positive.

Merry Christmas to all my Family & Friends in Faith:

Count your blessings….someone else is.
Your Brother in the Word:

Bryan A. Stross …:}….
December 25th , 2008 6:30 AM EST

Post Edits: January 16,  2024.

Proverbs 27 & Psalm 72