Sometimes I think I need a daily alarm.
You know, the annoying kind that goes “BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP” until you finally pay attention and slam your hand down to shut it off with the kind of gusto you can only manage at 6am on a Monday. That kind of alarm.
Otherwise I forget.
I forget that the sum of my life is made up of a thousand tiny choices.
- Do I stay calm when my 4 year old won’t put on her clothes and get ready for preschool…again?
- Do I go to bed on time so I can have the quiet time I so desperately need with God each morning?
- Do I remember to pray…to really pray…for my friend who specifically asked for me to intercede on her behalf?
- Do I speak my husband’s love language by being physically intimate with him when all I really feel like doing is crawling under the warm sheets and dozing off?
It’s the tiny choices that make a life.
What will you choose?
Will you choose to remember that we are what we repeatedly do and that we have the power to choose.
Every day, we have the power to choose to live free.
Free from others’ {and our own!} expectations.
Free from the past {and fears of what the future may hold}.
What tiny choice will you make today that will set you on the path of freedom in your life? Share in the comments and let’s encourage one another!
*This post is part of Lisa-Jo Baker’s 5 Minute Friday series, where she empowers bloggers to write for 5 minutes each Friday on a specific topic. Free writing. Writing just for the sheer joy of it. Today’s topic was “Choose“. I’m also sharing at Beauty Observed, Essential Fridays, God’s Girl, Friendship Fridays and Fridays Unfolded.