Amazing Grace

Today I stand in the Unknown.

I can choose to see life as a positive journey, filled with the potential for grace to happen.

I choose grace.

What do you choose today? How do you want to remember this day when you are just about to fall asleep tonight?

For many years I didn’t believe that I had the power to choose my life. I believed that if you made a poor choice you would have to live with that choice whether you liked it or not. There were no do-overs. Terrified of making a poor choice, I simply didn’t choose anything at all – unless forced to act. However, life required action and so I made choices that were based in fear and the results often reinforced my theory that choosing to act was a scary thing.

When I became a parent, I gave my children many opportunities to make choices. I remember watching their faces as they thought about their choice….I choose, (thinking with eyes alight with possibility), I choose….(smiles lingering as they delighted in the very act of choosing), I choose….. Often it was just a choice between chicken nuggets or a cheeseburger in their Happy Meals, but they did get to choose and they loved it. Somewhere in that process I started to see choice in a far more playful way.

By seeing choice as playful and by not getting caught up in the fear of the unknown, I have allowed grace to come into my life. Yes, do-overs are possible.