Life changes you.
We all walk the pathway of our lives wherever it leads us.
Pain changes us.
Loss changes us.
People change us.
Our choices change us. There are times we are forced to go into a direction we hadn’t intended to go.
I remember the times when I would attend a family reunion after many years and someone would say how they loved me but I was quick to remind them that they don’t really know me. I wasn't the same Milton they knew as a child. Too many years had passed. I was not the same person they remembered.
I’m not the same person I was in high school either. Our yearbook photo freezes us in time. I don’t recognize the naive younger version of myself.
I’m not even the same person I was just 15 years ago.
I would like to tell you that I have always made the right decision in the choices I have made but I haven’t. No one can truly say that because we can't always know what is ahead of us. We all just do the best that we can. We can only make choices based on the information we know. We can’t know what we don’t know.
I used to stress out about making the absolute perfect decision and worried about make the wrong one until I realized that even if I make the wrong decision, God will work it out and get us where we need to be. He said that He works ALL things together for good. Sometimes it doesn't seem good but I have learned that many, many times we don't see it until we are able to look back. As humans, we can only make the best decision we can based upon what we know. We can let ourselves be tormented about what ifs.
If we think that in our present situation that we are in it due to the result of a wrong choice what do we do?
We make the best of it until we can change it.
We all have endured pain and sometimes we have caused it. We are not perfect.
I wish I could go back and visit the younger me and tell him what was coming. Chances are that he wouldn’t believe me. I can hardly believe it now.
Life changes us whether we want it to or not. We can’t have it all figured out. We don’t have the luxury of seeing the big picture. We can only see what is in front of us. Just take one step at a time and one day at a time.
