The Stepping Stones of Life

Sometimes in life you sit and think, other times you just sit. Sometimes you look in the mirror and you don't recognize the person looking back at you. It is in those times in your life that maybe you have lost your balance. Webster says the meaning of balance is: stability produced by even distribution of weight on each side of the vertical axis. When your life balance is off you can make wrong decisions and bad choices. You come to a fork in the road and choose the unknown path versus the well trodden path you already know. Usually that unknown path is a one way street and it takes a bunch of hills and steep turns to eventually lead you back to the path you should have stayed on to begin with.

Life is a series of daily choices. Choices from the minute to important. A lot of decisions are eventually made based on prior thoughts. Thoughts always come before action. Thoughts are the road that leads to the action. A lot of times we put blame where blame does not belong. We blame our environment, our current situation, our spouse, our friends and sometimes, unfortunately, even our children for the choices that we make. Your past or current situation may influence who you are, but you are ultimately responsible for who you become. Our past mistakes and choices do not define who we are. Those are usually the stepping stones, the wrong path taken, that led you down the road to where you needed to be and who you needed to be.



Would life have been easier had those stepping stones been missed or if we decided against that other path? Perhaps. God will meet you where you are. The only thing one can do is to learn from those stepping stones and close the way that leads down that wrong path. The Bible says that when Jesus forgives He puts it behind His back and remembers them no more. I think most of the time when it comes to forgiveness everyone in your life can forgive you, but you. Think about a time how you forgave someone. It's over. It's done. You move on. You have to do that for yourself. The only person that can make you be the person you want to be is you.