Today is Your Day
Today is the Day
No matter who you are or where your at, today can be your day.
Its hard to say exactly who I am...I feel like parts of me change daily...or maybe a better word would be evolve...They say that we "Grow through what we go through" I find so much truth in that...A lot of times our identities are based off of the adversities that we endure... and depending on how deeply rooted we are in our faith,family,and values we may be able to fuel our futures with the burdens that sit upon our shoulders...AS for me...I am a son who longs to give back to mother just a fraction of the love and support that she has shown him...I am a friend who wants to pay it forward,and a husband who dreams of providing a life of joy and happiness for his wife...I am not so different from you...I have a voice...Yet expressing it is something that proves to be difficult given my circumstance...I am not here to change or alter your opinion...I only want to be heard...I am 33 years old,and have spent the last 11 of those years incarcerated...I have witnessed good men lose themselves within these walls...like flames placed inside of a jar,their spirits wither and die...leaving only a shell of the men they use to be...I refuse to accept that fate for myself...I want my legacy to live on beyond my years,in the hearts and minds of those who are willing to give me a chance...I want to be the helping hand that boldly reaches into the fire...gladly bearing the scars I earn as if they are my badge of honor.....I am Chisholm Lee Brittain...and I an not my past!!!
InSight
What do you do when the rain starts to fall??? Where to you go when the waves are roaring and all the constants in your life have fled??? Leaving you alone at sea,with no direction or hope of finding your way??? I challenge you now...today...To turn into the storm...cut loose the sails that carry you into safety,and grab one of the oars that you so easily run from...The tide will press against you...You will have the sun at your back and wind in your face,but with each stroke you will gain strength...you will find that the battle has given life to your courage,and that your fears have escaped...in search for easier prey...I've learned through my own personal struggles that the problems we face in this life are never as big and troublesome as we believe them to be in our minds...More often than not the monsters that we are most afraid of are the ones that we create ourselves...I have built my life around my fears...allowing their hold on my to shape and mold my character...causing me to run...to hide...to cower down with hops of mercy...I constantly sought out different forms of escape...drowning my realities under the weight of drugs and alcohol...living an illusion...I ran myself into a corner...boxed myself into a tiny cell all wrapped up in brick and razor wire...and here I have sat for the past 11 years... Fear can cripple a person...If allowed it will overcome you...I have finally broken the chains that have held
me in bondage for so long,and although I am physically in captivity...I am FREE mentally and emotionally...May you be brave...may you embrace the storm...May you find peace in the struggle... Chisholm Lee Brittain
Leadership Development
If you ask me about defeat,I can testify to how bitter it tastes...If failure is what you seek to understand I have miles upon miles of experience on that subject...and even if you are in the pursuit of the ever illusive powers of change and redemption I may be able to help you there as well...I have traveled through the wilderness,shackled to my own shadow...Burdened by the weight of other peoples standards and afraid that I may never reach beyond the darkness,or amount to anything more that what my mistakes say that I am...I have been at the very bottom only to realize that in order to save myself I have to quit reaching out in search of a helping hand,and instead learn how to bear my own cross...I have to be brave enough the blaze my own trails and beat my own drum...and above all else hold fast to the notion that I am a leader...That I have within me the power to prevail over resistance...and the story and the legacy I leave behind will only be as powerful as I believe them to be...Walk beside me...not in front or behind me...and allow me to show you my world!
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