The trail is crowded today, but that doesn’t matter. The rocks and trees don’t care, and neither does he. Nature is gorgeous and pleasantly cool. Climbs through a cave a couple of times, one that nobody knows about. He enjoys the exclusion. Also the community. Then he sees it.
He wonders why they did it. Perhaps it was too close to the path? He’s unsure. Either way, the caretakers of this place said it needed to come down, so it did. Maybe they didn’t want to cut it? But they had to. Maybe it was hard to change the path so much? But they did it. For the better? He doesn’t know. For good, though.
heyy!!! stop mocking me! i completely forgot that i never changed the default about page…
now…onto your pithy comment about my post. Of course I believe in a completely monergistic soteriology…so, when it comes to salvation, no choice. But…when it comes to day-to-day choices, well…we make choices. When I look back on my journey, one daily battle I have had to fight is that for joy. When I say I choose joy, I mean that by His grace I choose to rejoice in Him despite all my circumstances. By His grace and the power of His indwelling Spirit I choose to believe the truth of His Word rather than the lies of this world.
You are right though…”choose” is a tricky word. His Word says all of our days were written down in His book before a single day came to pass…so from His perspective I guess there is no choosing on our part? But from our perspective there still are day-to-day choices…even though God already ordained it, we don’t know…so we make “choices.” Sorry I wrote so much!