SACRED CHOICE

I was driving and listening to my playlist of Christmas Songs.  Christina Perri was on.  I sang along having a jolly good mood.

 

We're hanging mistletoe

And hoping that it snows

I close my eyes and then

I can still remember

How to get back, home

 

Let all your memories

Hold you close

No matter where you are

You're not alone

Because the ones you love

Are never far

If Christmas is in your heart

 

I was heading to two roads that fork.  My usual road is the left road for it runs closer to my home.  And then at the spur of the moment I thought of going the other road for a change.  It is a little longer route but what the heck.  I don’t see any harm.  Choices such as this don’t leave any stress or anything.  Unless I am counting every litre of the petrol, I may perspire while blaming myself what the heck am I thinking?  But I got sufficient petrol.  Wine Red (The car) is in good condition.  All I have to blame here really is Christina Perri and her songs I needed to finish listening.

 

Choices can be light sometimes.  You can pick either one or the other and does not make a difference.  Sometimes there are no bad choices only bad pickers when they procrastinate and making big fuzz out of it.

 

What do you really want?  There are so many choices of brands in a grocery store.  In order to avoid the dilemma of what brand to pick, it is a good idea to define beforehand what you want before going inside the grocery store.  If you are in a tight budget, you are in for the lowest priced brands.  If you want the usual yet a little expensive, go for that.  And then psych yourself that once you entered the grocery store, that is the direction you are taking.  Avoid side tracking and get stressed.  As for me, I have already defined my choices in the grocery store.  It is whatever my wife told me to buy. 

 

Choices get us obligated sometimes.  Therefore what we choose should be what we love so that we will avoid asking ourselves in the end, “Why do I end up in this situation?”  Sacred choices such as marriage and career should not be put lightly.  They are not something you pick from somewhere and when you are fed up with it, you simply untag them.  Going back to the drawing board should not be an option.  Our answer to the question “why?” when the going gets tough should be “because I love what I chose and I am committed with it through hell and high water.”

 

Discernment is a process to take when what’s ahead is blurry.  It may not lead to something maybe because either way is fine and the best thing to do is to man-up and pick one.  The character plays an important role in achieving something regardless of the choices.  A great character can make a choice a good one in the process.  What is important is you take the lead in the life that is entrusted to you by the Good God.  A great character may lead to something better.  The Good God who’s on your side would allow roads sometimes to cross so that you may take a better one.  If there may be no other roads the Good God who is on your side will equip you to go through it.

 

Sacred choice is what I call a choice which comes from a prayerful discernment.  Putting faith in prayers would lead us to a firm decision.  Once I arrived to what I have picked I am more at peace because I put faith in it.  Being at peace is not a situation.  It is innate.  There may be storm ahead on the road that I have decided to take but I am more at peace because I have a firm belief that this is the right road and there is gold at the end of the rainbow.  If I am not at peace in the storm, I would easily say that I have made a mistake in choosing the right road - the storm gets me to say that and the situation controls me.

 

Sometimes a choice can be made good if you take the responsibility and firm commitment to it.  There are no bad choice, only bad takers who look back and don’t live the moment.