I Choose Life

…. I don’t care, that is what I choose, I choose to live, not just live but to live super abundantly. I don’t leave it to chance, I am determined, purposeful, delibrate about it. Life is for living and it is a choice we make or not. More often than we realise, the option is constantly placed right before our eyeballs and we have to choose, life is like a conveyor belt, speedily passing before us and asking the same question all the time, from the moment we pop out, ‘life or death?’, ‘life or death?’, ‘life or death??’ , ‘life or death????’ We knowingly or unknowingly are forever answering the question, we are forever chooing to live or to die. The decisions we make from the moment we open our eyes in the morning boils down to that simple question, ‘life or death?’. The food we eat is based on our tilting ‘life or death?’, the people we hang around with, the friends we choice, it is about life or death. The thoughts we embrace in our heads, is based on what we have chosen, life or death? Whether we commit to our physical health, mental health, spiritual health, is based on our decision regarding life and death. The job we do, the business we embark on, the place we choose to live in, all affect whether we live or die. The load we choose to bear, the burdens we choose to carry, the grudges we stew on or not is all about whether we choice life or death. Each choice we make takes us nearer to life or death.Someone said but we all dying, that is one of the inevitable facts of life. Yes and this is very true, but the speed, the route we take, how quickly we get there is largely within the control of most of us. The maker said that today he has placed before us, life and death, blessings and cursings and he admonishes us to choose wisely, but we still have to put our hand in and do the picking. The opportunity for abundantly life has already been laid out for us, we have to decide whether we want it or not.Every single decision, leads to the next decision which in turn leads to the next and the next and the next and so it goes. Life is sinply a flow chart and as we work through the process we are closer to one destination or another. It is a cause and effect system, you can’t short circuit the process, if you continously make little micro ‘death’ decisions, you end up in the ‘death’ pile, you make micro ‘life’ decisions cumulatively you end up in the ‘life’ pile. And when we mix up the decisions we end up with discoloured laundry. If deliberately or unknowingly we put our whites with the coloured or dark laundry, we know the outcome, the washing machine is unsentimental and non discriminating. It churns everything together and you get what you get.We have to associate with what we want and be purposeful and deliberate in our associations. If we want life, but associate with death, death will bleed on us! It is as simple as that. It is not for no reason that the scriptures says let the the dead bury their dead. This is not saying we will not do the burial rites for our loved ones that pass on, no, not at all! But once the rites have been done, the honour performed, the mourning over, we must as a matter of choice, do the needful, live!!! Their time is gone, our time is here and now and one day, sooner than we expect, it will be our time, to say our goodbyes, until then we must give life a good shot.Just like the laundry example, we have the coloured and we have the darks, putting our whites with any of the 2 will colour it. In life we also have the dead and the dying, a delicate balance is required on how we handle the dying, with love, with care, with empathy and humility but the white must remain white. The life guard does not drown with the drowning man. His calling is to save life not die.Someone said but the master admonishes that he that will save his life will lose it, so if we are bent on living , wouldn’t we loose the plot? No, we wouldn’t for the act of living is the act of going against the odds. The act is stack up in favour of death.I encourage you, choose life!