Everything Is A Choice

Mar 30, 2010 by winjaw

Our pastor has started a new sermon series entitled “Everything Is A Choice.”

It’s one of those catching little titles that people like.  The reality, at least in my own life, is going to be one of those “Oh snap” moments.  Because it’s really, really easy to say; it’s really, really easy to illustrate; it’s really, really difficult to follow through.

Everything is a choice. How you emotionally react and handle the people and circumstances you come across in your life is up to you.  See, easy to say.

Hard to do; because let’s face it, sometimes we just don’t want to let go.  

We don’t want to forgive that person who hurt us. We want to harbor an emotional turmoil inside us – we want the other person to feel the pain we feel over whatever slight it was. The truth is that other person probably isn’t even aware of what’s going on inside us.  Our frustrations, our pains, our hurts, don’t mean squat to the other person involved.  And that bugs us, which in turn makes us even more ticked at the whole situation.

How we handle all the issues and backstabbing and just mundane aspects of our work is up to us.  We can fume and spew, or we can let it go.

Easy to say.

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I’ve been reading Victor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” Frankl was  a Jew who spent years in Nazi concentration camps. Every member but one sister died in those camps. The book has sold more than 12 million copies.

The forward to the book sums it all up: “In the concentration camp, every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is ‘the last of the human freedoms’ – the ability to ‘choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.'”

Easy to say. Hard to do.

But somehow Frankl did it. Imprisoned in a concentration camp and daily watching (and sometimes receiving) brutal beatings; watching the daily march to the gas chambers.

For me personally, I know this is going to be one of those sermon series that I will enjoy listening to; the follow through is going to be the hard part.

How about you? How do you handle the emotional aspects of life?