Making Choices

It was an average Sunday afternoon.  I was sitting at Cracker Barrel enjoying a lunch with a few friends from church and the waitress comes up to the table.  She then asks me the question I wish she didn’t. “What would you like to eat?” she would say.  I fumble my menu in my hands and make a few grunt-like noises.  I shift my eyes from left to right until they finally settle on my friend across the table.  Guess what happens next?  “You go first” is what I say.
I sometimes have a hard time making decisions.  I have learned that I can sometimes worry more about what to eat for lunch than the big decisions in life. With that in mind I bring us back to what I said.  It is often joked about that women cannot make decisions. This often makes me wonder why I have such a hard time making decisions.  You see, I know I’m male, but I can worry to death about decisions (I also love chocolate which further complicates the issue.)
But isn’t it amazing that God created life to be a ride where I get on and it does not stop until I get off?  Our life is decided by the choices we make everyday.    Although we can sit there and worry about these decisions, in some ways it is a good thing that we cannot change our minds.
I’m sure you have seen “Back to the Future”.  Marty’s experience with time travel shows how going back to fix one thing can completely change history, for better or worse.  If we were able to change all the things about our lives that we did not like we may not like the result of that future either.
I say all of that to say this: Live your life in spite of your past choices.  Don’t look back.  You can’t change the past, but your past can destroy your future.
So don’t worry so much about what you’re going to eat.  I’m sure it won’t be that big of a deal when it’s in your stomach.