Good Day to all who honor and respect me by reading my hopefully humble words.  I truly believe the greatest gift God has given us is the power to make choices.  Now, believe it or not, in my opinion there is a lot that can be written about this topic and I am going to write about my choices and what they did for me.  I will make a few comments regarding what I think choices can do for us and what great power that gift has for us.

I believe whatever choice any of us make, will be a teacher for us, good or bad.  For one thing, there is no such thing, in my humble opinion as a bad person, but I do believe that there are plenty of people who make choices that are not always very good or very well thought out.  I believe that if we honestly review the choices we have made and look at them squarely in the mirror and be completely and rigourously honest with ourselves, we will see and learn quite a bit about ourselves.

I have a paper on my mirror that says, "If I have a problem, look here."  Now, that of course tells me that I can't blame or complain about anything, instead, I must accept whatever choice or decision I have made in my life.  Then I must ask myself, what have I learned from it.  I learned long ago the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  So, knowing that, helps me know that if I have made a choice that has hurt me, or someone else, then I need to take a good look at it and ask myself what was the motive behind it was and be completely honest about it.

If I have made choices that have hurt anyone else, I need to make amends as quickly as possible whether that person or persons, accept the amends or not.  I'm making the amends for me and my Creator.  My Creator has taught me very well that once I make those amends and I ask my Creator to take the results of those amends, then I will learn something about me and about why I made a choice that would hurt another human being.  Hopefully, I will also learn not to make that choice again and discover what was behind it with the help of my wonderful Creator.

I always know in my heart and soul when I have done something or made a choice that was very selfish and self centered and don't even have to look in the mirror to feel that.  My Creator has been teaching me throughout my life that being selfish and self centered is one of my greatest sins.  If I am that way, how can I be of use to God or anyone else and that is my ultimate goal in life.

It is by choice alone that I truly learn about me and others.  If is the one beautiful gift my God has given me and all others and I truly hope that I will be able to pass on to my family, friends and others that concept some way.  I am here to do my God's work as given to me by my God when I meditate and pray and surrender to God every day.  The work is put forth in front of me and it is my choice whether I want to do the work given me by my wonderful Creator.