#BlogElul Day 4. Choose

     It’s all laid out— expectations, wrong paths, choices. The blueprint for living and yet we get to choose. That’s the catch. Every day possibilities for choice. A chance conversation and the opportunity to see the holy spark within another. We can choose to think I’m—too tired, too harried to offer help, to listen, to pray in community, to break bread together.

     I want to remind myself that all paths have stumbling blocks and thorns. You can’t choose to avoid all the cracks and bumps along the way, but you can choose to partake in the blueprint. 

      And even when someone chooses to turn their back God offers a way back. 

A friend always quoted this line:  And  will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten... Joel 2:25