Leaving Life's Envelope Empty

I believe that in everyone’s lifetime we all must face phenomenal forks in the proverbial road of life. Hesitation and indecisiveness attempt to fog the journey ahead but we have the God given gift of decision that provides us clarity for our journey. We take for granted our internal power to alter the direction of our lives immensely with something as simple as a decision. From this one choice we can detour from lives of mediocrity and transfer to living lives of meaningful greatness. I define these tender turns as defining moments. God has graced you with a diversity of gifts but it is often through difficulty and pain that they are eventually transformed from embryonic and flimsy to totally developed. Most people in this contemporary way of living are avoiders. They avoid conflict, they avoid problems, they avoid responsibility, they avoid accountability but as hard as you might try it is almost impossible for you to avoid pain in your life. It arrives warranted or unwarranted it comes with the package. If you want to use it or not that is your prerogative but you must deal with your pain and/or the pain in the lives of others that might affect you indirectly. John Maxwell while quoting C.S. Lewis exclaimed that “ Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different than what it was before. And taking your life as whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.” (Maxwell 2005, 6) Take a moment and think of a time in your life when you were precautious but hopeful concerning the next move for your life. These moments can consist of moments of embarrassment; moments of excruciating pain or moments of unexpected loss of a love one. This moment could have been displayed HD (High definition) in your life through a devastating divorce, it highly defined you, a stinging separation; or a strange let down in life that left you shattered. These moments are painful yet pregnant with poignant possibility. We have the chance to cultivate our circumstances that shapes the pattern of our success