Cereal or toast? Walk to work or drive? Home-educate or mainstream school? And yes Conservative, Labour, or Lib Dem? From the moment we wake, our days are filled with endless choices. Some we make with barely a passing thought, while others can leave us wrestling with self-doubt and fear over failure and regret.
Life is a composition of these individual, every-day, every-moment decisions. Choice is powerful. It can give control, a sense of autonomy and it can handover responsibility, burden and consequence. We seek to be people who both give and make wise, right choices. So how do we do so?
Choosing with your brain
Typically, we envision this to be a cerebral process. A wise consideration or thoughtful discernment. Even as we pray about a decision to make, and search Scripture, I wonder whether more of us associate this with our mental faculties? Of course we do. It would be foolish and impossible not to exercise our minds in making or giving decisions. However, to be people who choose rightly and wisely, we must do so as whole selves, with our whole selves.
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