Where are your choices leading?
“People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at this moment is progressing to the one state or the other.”
— C. S. Lewis, p. 92 An Excerpt From Mere Christianity
Take some time today to take stock of the person you are and the person you want to become.  Are you headed in the right direction?  Do you need to make some changes?  Are you making the right choices?  As children, our choices were made for us.  At that time, we could blame bad choices on those responsible for our care.  As adults, we have the power to choose for ourselves and therefore we have no one to blame but ourselves if we don’t like the person we’ve become.  The good news is each day God gIves us an opportunity to start a new!  May this day be the start of something new, good and beautiful for you!  God bless you!
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