“The Way We Chose”

The way we chose is often as simple as “we let it happen”. This statement was made in a movie back in 1985, but I never forgot it as there is deep wisdom in these words. So often we want to imagine that life’s circumstances just happen to us. That it is not our fault, we were the victims of powers greater than ourselves and that our own choices have nothing to do with our present reality. This is a great deception we allow ourselves to indulge in. The truth often is, we don’t like to take responsibility for our choices, or the consequences they lead to. It is so much easier to blame others, or simply to believe that our own actions would make no difference in the outcomes in our lives. The truth is however, that we chose our fate. We chose the fruit that our lives bear. We chose joy or bitterness, love or hate, God or the devil. We ” let it happen”, what our fate will be, what the fruit of our lives will be, what our very souls will become. Someday God will reveal this truth in detail to each one of us, how we ” let it happen” in our lives; what we became, what we did with our time, opportunities, and the light that God gave us.

We aren’t victims or somehow uninvolved in the direction of our lives or the fruit we are bearing with our works. We, whether we realize it or not are choosing our direction and destiny every day.