For many
people, life runs to extremes.
The
circumstances of life can be like riding on raging rapids or like being stuck
in a stagnant pool with no movement.
An essential truth of life is that either you control life or life will control you.
There is,
for many people, no choice over their circumstances and they have no voice to
express their pain.
An
eighty-five-year-old person in a nursing home, it would seem, has few choices
about life.
However,
there are a few choices a person confined to a nursing home can make.
A nursing
home resident can love God, love others, and pray.
The reality
for every person is that if you don't have a handle on life, life will handle
you.
There is
always a choice about how you will be.
You may not
have a choice about what you do in a circumstance, but you do have a choice
about the kind of person you are.
You may be
caught on a raft on a raging river with no control over where you are but you
can control how you respond to that circumstance.
The great
tests of life are the tests that require humility, courage, love, compassion,
mercy, and forgiveness.
You control
the result of your test.
You pass or
fail based upon what you desire.
You have a
choice about being a child of God.
You have a
choice about loving God with all your heart, all your soul, and with all of your
might.
You have a
choice about accepting Christ into your heart and life.
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