Choosing

Tonight was especially hard on me.  My littlest didn't want to come over, she wanted to stay with her daddy.  We got her in the car eventually but it ripped out my heart.  Her actions scream how much she's hurting and it's the only way she can express it.  Once she got to my house she was fine.  She even talked about God and how he's going to help us get a house and a new car!  Sweet.

I got to thinking about choosing.  How we choose to love others even when they don't love us.  That amazing thing we do as parents sometimes.  I think about how God chose to love us by sending His Son Jesus to die.  Jesus who CHOSE to give his life away, to take our place on that cross.  

We hear the phrase "life's about choices" a lot from pop psychologists.  Their choices, the ones they talk about, surely affect our daily lives.  There is so much more.  We get to choose Jesus!  We either accept or reject what He did on the cross and what that means for us.  

So yes, life's about choices.  I pray for wisdom all the time.  Wisdom to make the right choices for me and for my girls.  Wisdom to lead them in life and toward God.  Life's about a lot of little choices, some big.  Making good decisions every day as I work toward my goals.