TIP #2
CHOICES - decisions that we can control
My Father says, "I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance."
Life is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance. Relationships are made of choices. A relationship is made and kept as long as you decide that you have one. Your future is a thing to be achieved made of the choices that you make today, and each choice leads to a consequence. Each consequence is one strand in the fabric of our lives; therefore, I cannot blame others or events for what happens to me, since I am the weaver of the fabric that makes up my life. Others can only take from us what we are willing to relinquish.
Indecision, not having courage to make a choice, is a great enemy in many lives. Indecision steals opportunity and chances for a better future. This enemy must be annihilated by allowing courage to come forth and make a choice. We can choose to let situations and difficulties, however severe, take our life, our joy, our peace from us, or, we can choose to rise above it, however difficult the choice may be.
Your life is all about the choices and determinations that you make every day. You do have choices. You can choose to be guided through life by a purpose that feeds you and gives you abundant life, or, you can be driven by wrong choices made by bad attitudes, low self-esteem, loneliness, resentment and anger, FEAR, need for approval, materialism, and so the list goes on and on and on. Wrong choices are sometimes driven by our need for an excuse.
Some people have difficulty with the fact that we are responsible for what happens to us. Once we accept the fact that we create what happens to us and accept responsibility for the choices we make, we can then begin to make the most of our lives. For example, no one chooses to become obese, but many choose to eat the wrong foods; therefore, we suffer the consequences of our actions.
Another example, many people do not "choose" to be poor, but, by choosing to spend more than they earn, not choosing to set money aside for emergencies, choosing to waste money on unnecessary things, brings us back to the fact that we must live with the consequences of our choices.
Many times we stick our heads in the sand, like an orstrich, waiting for "things" to happen so that we don't personally have to make a choice. Sadly, we do not realize that we DID make a choice when we choice NOT to decide by burying our heads in the sand.
We MUST forget past mistakes made by wrong choices, and then, most importantly, FORGIVE ourselves and others. Since today is all that we have, we can be empowered by the fact that we can begin a new chapter in our lives with a positive attitude and by making choices that will be for our good and the good of our family and others around us.
Our Father did not put us here to forsake us. He is with us to help us make wise decisions if we will only ASK Him for help. It is up to us to be happy, grateful, joyful, at peace, gracious and kind, forgiving, loving...let us begin today a beautiful future walking in abundance by making RIGHT CHOICES. Choose wisely!
Stay tuned for TIP #3 :>)
CHOICES - decisions that we can control
My Father says, "I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance."
Life is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance. Relationships are made of choices. A relationship is made and kept as long as you decide that you have one. Your future is a thing to be achieved made of the choices that you make today, and each choice leads to a consequence. Each consequence is one strand in the fabric of our lives; therefore, I cannot blame others or events for what happens to me, since I am the weaver of the fabric that makes up my life. Others can only take from us what we are willing to relinquish.
Indecision, not having courage to make a choice, is a great enemy in many lives. Indecision steals opportunity and chances for a better future. This enemy must be annihilated by allowing courage to come forth and make a choice. We can choose to let situations and difficulties, however severe, take our life, our joy, our peace from us, or, we can choose to rise above it, however difficult the choice may be.
Your life is all about the choices and determinations that you make every day. You do have choices. You can choose to be guided through life by a purpose that feeds you and gives you abundant life, or, you can be driven by wrong choices made by bad attitudes, low self-esteem, loneliness, resentment and anger, FEAR, need for approval, materialism, and so the list goes on and on and on. Wrong choices are sometimes driven by our need for an excuse.
Some people have difficulty with the fact that we are responsible for what happens to us. Once we accept the fact that we create what happens to us and accept responsibility for the choices we make, we can then begin to make the most of our lives. For example, no one chooses to become obese, but many choose to eat the wrong foods; therefore, we suffer the consequences of our actions.
Another example, many people do not "choose" to be poor, but, by choosing to spend more than they earn, not choosing to set money aside for emergencies, choosing to waste money on unnecessary things, brings us back to the fact that we must live with the consequences of our choices.
Many times we stick our heads in the sand, like an orstrich, waiting for "things" to happen so that we don't personally have to make a choice. Sadly, we do not realize that we DID make a choice when we choice NOT to decide by burying our heads in the sand.
We MUST forget past mistakes made by wrong choices, and then, most importantly, FORGIVE ourselves and others. Since today is all that we have, we can be empowered by the fact that we can begin a new chapter in our lives with a positive attitude and by making choices that will be for our good and the good of our family and others around us.
Our Father did not put us here to forsake us. He is with us to help us make wise decisions if we will only ASK Him for help. It is up to us to be happy, grateful, joyful, at peace, gracious and kind, forgiving, loving...let us begin today a beautiful future walking in abundance by making RIGHT CHOICES. Choose wisely!
Stay tuned for TIP #3 :>)
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