A Moment of Choice

There will come a moment in each of our lives when we must make a choice for God. Our whole life up to that point is training to bring our will into line with God’s will. A life with God equips us so that in that moment of choice we have the ability to make the “right” choice.

I believe sometimes we will know we made the choice and sometimes we will not. Certainly from our perspective knowing the choice is before us would be much preferable, but it probably is of little concern to God. If our will is truly aligned with His will we even notice? It will be just another “right” choice in a series of “right” choices.

                     - inspired by Genesis 45

God and the 10,000 lbs Gorilla

I just finished a book called Blink. It is about how a lot of our thinking is below the surface behind the locked door of our subconscious. It was a very interesting read. I highly recommend it.

It reminded me of a bit I did with Kay many years ago before we were married. I don’t remember how we got there, but I believe I was trying to explain that my love for her was a subconscious decision. I said my subconscious was like a 10,000-pound gorilla flinging bananas at me trying to get me to do the right thing, i.e. marry her. My point was that the deep part of my soul was telling me she was the one I, my conscious mind, just had to catch up.

Whether you believe in the spiritual or not you cannot deny that there is more too us than our conscious mind. So what is the subconscious really? Could it be that at the subconscious level we connect with our soul and it is behind that locked door that God talks to us?