August 11, 2011

• RWOTD {Fork}

  So, I am resurrecting my spring tradition of doing the "Random Word of the Day".  I kind of miss doing those blog posts.  But life is busy and it is hard to find to time to write every day, but maybe I'll start it back up again later this falls.  Who knows?

  Anyway, here is a bonus one thrown into the middle of your summer for you.

   

  I could write about the various uses of forks.

  Like this one which I think is a really cool idea:

  

  Or this one, which I think is just totally bizarre.

  

  I mean, who needs an "egg cup"?  Really?

   

  But I wanted to go in a little different direction and talk about the "forks" in our lives...as in, the fork in the road. The points of decision that we come to throughout our lives.

  Now, maybe these forks in the road are not always quite this obvious.

  

  Ha, ha.

   

  Although it would be really nice if there was some sort of alert to let you know that you are about to make a life changing decision.

  Because so many times we inadvertently make life changing decisions.  Its just that they don't seem that way at the time.

  That choice we make to allow bitterness to grow in our heart instead of allowing forgiveness to do its work...we maybe don't even realize we are making that choice. We don't look at it as a fork in the road, but I can tell you, if you follow the path of forgiveness instead of the path of bitterness...years down the road you will be at a much difference place.

  Or the choice I made, that silent vow, sitting at the stop light in the middle of town after yet another go-round with my husband of 2 or 3 years..."I will not be the one with the problems anymore. I will not cause this conflict in our marriage.  When something bothers me, I will not talk about it."

  I was at a fork in the road.  At a literal and figurative crossroad.  But I had no clue.

  I had no idea what would happen in my heart when I tried to shut part of it down.  I didn't know that I wasn't really the problem, it was our communication that was the problem.  Our different ways of dealing with things.

  If I could re-do that moment, I would choose to continue to be vulnerable.  I would not choose to shut down parts of me emotionally. Because that didn't work. At all.  But I didn't know that until quite a few years later.

   

  That day that may come where we are faced with the question "Is God really good?  All of the time."  Its a fork in the road. 

  It seems scary to me that life decisions can be made so effortlessly and so casually, yet the direction we choose to go at those forks in the road can make all of the difference.

  Will I accept Jesus into my heart or will I turn Him away and live life my own way?

  Will I choose to be thankful or will I choose to complain?

  Will I follow the Holy Spirit's prompting to build a relationship and reach out to this person in my life, or will I decide that I am too busy and full of my own plans to give to someone else?

   

  You could drive yourself crazy with scenarios of the road(s) not traveled.  You could waste a lot of energy on regret. Hind sight is 20/20, right? 

  I guess my point is this:  Be aware.  The choices that you make today that could seem insignificant could have a major impact upon your life and the lives of those around you.

  And if someone would just invent a "fork in the road" flashing sign that would go off in my head when I am at one of those crossroads, yeah, that'd be really cool!

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