Life Is About Choices

Dear family,

Life is about choices. 

Sometimes we want to make the right choice, but we don’t. Too many things get in the way, and we let the moment of choice pass. 

Sometimes our feelings get in the way. Today, I feel good about the choice before me, it feels right. Tomorrow, events that surround me invade that good feeling and, I feel doubtful, or tired, or rejected, or, even angry. 

I pray that as you view the choices grandma and me have made over the years, you will see a growing life of good choices. We are daily getting closer when those choices in life will be weighed by our Heavenly Father. 

Of course, because we have made a primary choice to receive forgiveness in Jesus and follow Him as the Lord over our lives, we will be be “accepted” no matter the moments when we could have made better choices. 

We ask you to make or remember that primary, eternal  choice for yourself. Out of that relationship with God our Father, you will discover multiplying years of good choices, and you will experience greater satisfying joy. 

C. S. Lewis, “But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else—something it never entered your head to conceive—comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? 

For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.” Mere Christianity. New York: Macmillan, 1952:  66.