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Well said but harder to realize.

Richard Cor de Lyon wrote:
Sure it is. We all need justifications; our ego’s demand them. But in the end we are a lot more than our ego.

Sometimes it not a mater of ego but of circumstance. Ego plays it part there but in the end, the choices are not always ours to make.

Richard Cor de Lyon wrote:
Exactly, the point is the choice of response IS always ours to make. No matter how much we get swept up into other peoples crap… how we respond is our choice. It takes a good deal of will power sometimes, but we have that choice.

True enough but will power is not always able to overcome. We are all shaped by our choices and at some point a reaction will come. For better or worse, react we must. But as you say, that is a choice. Free will does overcome us sometimes.

The saying “Life is what you make it” springs to mind.

Thinking it is so far from holding the truth we seek. Still, blindly, in the dark, we… react.

That is hard to realize and I don’t think a lot of people would have the strength..

Richard Cor de Lyon wrote:
But how often are we REALLY, blindly, in the dark? Not to often in my opinion, and if we are that is the first thing that needs to change. Awareness is one of the primary things we must possess for a purposeful life.

Some see what they can, others what they will. Either way, blind we are. Just because we react, does not mean we always see. Sometimes you go on faith/hope….
There is still purpose in that, but the result is not always what we wished for.

Richard Cor de Lyon wrote:
that’s a good point Eddieee; as Martin Luther King jr. said, “you don’t have to see the whole stairway to take the first step”. It’s true…but that **** third step might be missing! If we’re going up the stairs blindly on faith/hope we’re in for a certain fall if a step is missing. But then the ability for choices come in. Do we, at that point, go down the stairs broken and a victim, or do we jump over that missing step as a survivor and complete the progress. It wasn’t our choice to fall, but it clearly is our choice to continue.

Survive..continue…Now you speak more of the power of forgiveness then of faith. That is not a matter of hope but of strength. Sometimes we..well…we are not willing to give up, to give in. So still, we have faith that it will heal. Once again, here we are blind.