To my mother:

Last mothers day I spoke to you on the phone....

this mothers day, I have you here in hawaii!

I love you, I am grateful for you, I adore you!

"To love another is to see the face of God."

There are many things which I believe.  I believe that life is a journey. I believe in God.  I believe that we are all here on this earth being tested, that we are here to prove to God that we can be obedient.   I also believe that there is more to this test than just proof of obedience.

I believe in something a more universal aspect of this journey (wether one has a belief in god or not, this applies to us all), I believe that part of the reason as to why we are here is to learn how to be with  and interact with other people.  

Everyday, we come in contact with people, some we know, some we don't, some we like, many we dislike.  Our goal is to overcome ourselves and  to learn how to have relationships with other people, to learn how to love, to share, to give.  We must learn how to cope with those who we would not normally want to be apart of.  We must learn how to be kind to those we find intolerable.  We must  overcome our own pride and insecurities so that we can see the good in others and even learn from them.  

The moments in my life when I have felt closest to God have been when I have forgotten myself and done all I could for another person.  When we begin to love another, when we humble ourselves and become selfless for another person, that is the moment where we become the most like God.  

So instead of judging another, smile at them, love them, try to see them with God's eyes, or with the eyes of a loving parent.  If you have been wronged, forgive them and remember that life is too short to go on with animosity and stress towards another individual.  Love is all we need, we all long to feel it, to know that someone out there cares for us, so let us love, let us show it in our actions, let us prove to be genuine, kind human beings.  Let bring forth a positive energy into the world.