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By Judy Traffie
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It is so hard to know whether the choice or decision you are making will be the right one. Will you regret it when you look back from further down the road? Every moment of every day involves a decision that must be made. What to eat. What to drink. What to do next. Sometimes I get tired of making all those choices. Sometimes I just want to stop and have them made for me.
But then you think about how it would be if it were opposite. We would all be like robots following a program. Eating when told to eat. Laughing when told to laugh. Every day a well organized timeline. No spontaneity. No joy. No feeling of freedom. No living…just existing.
I guess that is why God made us so unique. So we can find joy in the every day. So we can feel. So we can learn and grow.
We are faced with choices every minute of everyday and they affect us in different ways. We can make a bad choice and then we are faced with another choice. Do we let it ruin our day, or do we make the choice to be happy anyway?
When you look at it in that light it is somewhat overwhelming, it turns into a mountain of choices towering above your head. It’s exhausting. But it can also be satisfying. The knowledge that you made a decision that will benefit your future or someone else’s.
The philosophy of taking each day one moment at a time is really the only way to handle things when we get overwhelmed. Not looking at the big picture, but by taking fragments of it and making our way through them one by one, until all of the sudden we look back and a whole section is complete.
Life IS confusing, but if we lean on God and trust Him with all of our decisions, even if they are bad ones, He will guide us through them. Life is not meant to be overwhelming, but a gift.
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A recommendation--don't stray into 2nd person ("you")...your piece is more relatable if you stick to 1st person POV.
You've done a good job here.
This was an interesting article. You showed some insight and managed to put yourself accross in an eloquent manner. I enjoyed reading it.
I've read a few things on this very subject before, but I liked the fresh insight of this sentence: "We can make a bad choice and then we are faced with another choice." GREAT reminder.
Good luck! And don't forget to throw a brick on the message boards on Wednesday. :)