Choosing a Life of Freedom

Friday Matters-November 27, 2020
Everyday Life Choice

​My husband Dan and I were on the couch once again having “the talk.” Oh, you know the talk about finances and getting out of debt?  Dan proceeded in a serious tone talking about what “we” needed to do but it sounded more like a lecture about what “I” needed to do.  I wanted to shout; “If you don’t like the way things are, look at the changes you can make.  Don’t wait for me to change.”  I even had a verse to go with “my talk”; Deuteronomy 30:19; “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”  

But for some reason I sat silently and prayed.  And by the end of Dan’s lamentation he actually said, “I guess I need to look at the choices I can make and not put it all on you.”  And I think, “Why don’t I shut my mouth more often and simply pray? It’s a life-giving choice to make…everyday.