Love is a Decision

We are taught that our power relies on something that we must search for and earn.

But I’m here to tell you that our power comes from somewhere else entirely.

We get to choose.

In every moment - we get to make a new choice. Our choices are reflected in how we spend our time, and our focus, and our energy. Our choices are elevated by our hearts, and our dreams, and our magic. Our choices are empowered by our clarity and they are given life through our community.

Nobody is meant to do this alone.

Once we make a new choice - everything after that changes. But even change is subject to choice. In every day, in every step forward, in every path we take, individually and together, we must recommit to choosing more of the same:

Learn how to be human, learn how to be love.

These wounds have caused more carnage and condemned more children than we could ever hope to account for. But these wounds could stop with us.

I believe that we have it in us to really love one another.

And as overwhelming as that might sound - it really comes down to making a courageous choice.

This post is an excerpt of my essay “The Inhumanity of White Supremacy,” click here to read the rest.

Love is a decision

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