Five Minute Friday: Choosing to Accept

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five Minute Friday...She gives us all a writing prompt and we write, uninterrupted, with very little editing for 5 minutes. Imperfect but real... Today's word is: CHOOSE.

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We all choose. Every single day, choosing, choosing. Which tea to have for breakfast (right now I'm loving Bigelow's White Chocolate Kisses), how many chocolate chips to put on the oatmeal (it's Friday--a decent handful). And the big decisions, sometimes even the subconscious ones: Choosing to show up to work with a smile on your face. Choosing to feel beautiful, even if you've been told otherwise by people in your life. Choosing to step out on a precariously thin limb, knowing that God is the one who sways the trees and can make you fly off that branch into blue sky dreams. These are bold choices, sometimes even reckless in the face of the world's desires.

See God calls us to choose. We must choose. It's one of the biggest pieces of this glorious puzzle He's got: We choose. 

We choose to accept Him. 

We choose to accept Love. 

We choose to see with His holy eyes instead of our dusty, earthly ones.

Yes, He can love us through and through but without our choice, it is not a relationship. So, too, it is on earth, here, that we must choose, and choose, and choose again: To accept love. For the more love we accept, the more love we have to give. And that, my friends, makes the world a much more beautiful place.

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