So I've been thinking about the vast impact of the choices we make. One decision, one action, and we impact multiple lives permanently, forever. A father chooses to let his son down and the son is scarred for life - never trusts, doesn't believe in love, can't even believe his own Creator could love him. And why should he? When the one who physically gave him life let him down, how can he believe that someone out there can care about him unconditionally? If you make a choice, lives are affected, regardless of your intentions, for better or worse. How, then, do we make choices that affect people in the right way? How do we inspire, love, encourage people through our choices?
The best answer I can produce is to keep our choices in line with the only one who knows how each life's puzzle piece interconnects. We must constantly seek the spirit's direction in order to keep our actions in accordance with God's will for everyone's life. That makes sense of course, read the word, follow directions, just add water, etc. and so forth.
So then what do we do when others' choices have impacted our own lives? What do I do for a student who doesn't believe anything good about others or himself because his father abandoned and neglected him? The answer eludes me still. But it's something to think about anyway.
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