choices.

It’s early Friday morning. My pour over coffee in my “hug in a mug” mug and Bible study materials are next to me. I have books and some yearn, and needles and dried flowers and candles burning all within 3 feet of me. I am at my desk in the dining room, up close and facing the windows.

I woke up this am and choose to do yoga. Just 30-minutes is what I would used to have said, and now it is more like, “I MADE IT 30-MINUTES!!!”

This week I attempted to help Alli enroll for their next semester of college. I ended up being a tiny bit of moral support that being successful. Had a monster headache; went to work early; worked on a grant, extra early so I could get Lizzie to an ortho consultation; and some mornings I walked and others I drove to work, depending on needs of the day.

All choices. All choices made with the belief that God created everything, and we did not evolve, and there is a eternal purpose to all the choices.

A book I have been slowly reading is “Making a Life,” by Melanie Falick. It is beautiful and inspiring in all my favorite ways. And it is written from the premise of evolution. And that is rather empty to me. It is also very hard to believe when every time I compare genetically modified food (work from our hands) vs heirloom foods, I think there is no way we could have figured out how to get all 12 systems of the body to work at once to become a living human being. No matter how many years they say the planet has been around. Which that doesn’t add up either when you look over what just the last 5000 years.

Books should inspire us, or make us think, and move us to action in some way. Even if that is just finishing the book. 🙂 This book fits the requirement. It teaches me and gives me glimpses into artists lives. “Make a Life” helps me take a deep breath and dream a little more about what I want to do; and it stirs in me to interview artists who live life from a belief system a little closer to mine.

Choices. What we read. How we spend our moments. Choosing how you budget your morning, start your day and what you think and do… all choices. Choices that I get to make when many don’t have that many options around the globe, or are basic training like Luke, and mainly get to choose how to show up and the mental perspective when he doesn’t get to make fresh coffee or sit at a table to linger over a meal.

Choices… What ones are you intentionally making today? I hope they are the best ones you have the power to make.