Choices Matter

“There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity.”

                                                                                                Viktor Frankl

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There are always choices to be made

10 times

100 times

Thousands of times a day we make choices

Some big, some small

Some casual, some intense

Some irrelevant, some critical

We choose how to spend out time

What to eat

How long to sleep

We choose where we will invest our energy

To whom we will give, or withhold our love

And our choices reveal who we are

Or perhaps, more accurately

They reveal who or what we have allowed to shape us.

What values we embrace

Who is important to us

What we value

What shapes us can be an emotion, such as fear

I can be an ideology, which values power and wealth

Or an ideology which values compassion and generosity

It can be a culture

A faith system (religion)

Or what shapes us can be the Sacred

The indwelling presence of the Sacred

Which irresistibly bubbles up from with in

Changing us dramatically

Creating us new

Changing us forever.

What can shape us can be the Sacred

Which frees us from the powers of the world

And keeps those things that would distort us

And blur the Sacred Image from destroying us

But it’s our choice

And saying we are making choices because…. God

That do not reflect the nature of God,

Does not mean that those choices

Are Spirit driven

Not at all

At all

How do we know we are shaped by the Sacred

Spirit driven?

How do we know we are free (at least somewhat)

From the powers of the earth

And how do we know we still reflect our Sacred DNA?

The Beatitudes make sense

We have glad and generous hearts

We welcome and embrace

We are appalled at the abuse of power

and at the obscenity of extreme wealth

We love God

And we Love others

All others

all

Period