The bars aren’t meant to keep you out. No, sometimes they are saying…fight to get in.
(Picture by Lisa R)

Why are bad choices so much easier to make than right ones? I have a friend that I am seriously proud of right now. Why? Well she is going through some things (her story not gonna share) that would cause a lesser person (and in the past even herself) to make very bad decisions in order to resolve them. Having known this person for a little, and knowing her background, I would even understand why she’d make a bad choice. But here’s the cool thing, she hasn’t. She’s held her ground and even in the face of the most cruel mistreatment she’s managed to hold her head high and maintain who she is. This post is not about praising her, as much as it is about encouraging and taking the time to see the strength in another person. I (from experience) know how easy it is to make wrong decisions, they seem to just fall in our lap. But at the end of the day the havoc such choices make will usually leave us worse off, not better. We all at some point on our life journey will have to choose between making a easy wrong choice or a hard right one. One builds character, the other destroys it.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

So what’s my plan of attack? As much as depends on me, make right choices.