dailydatewithgod

We can all too easily forget that we play a part in our minds and hearts.  We are not simply beings reacting to everything.  We are the authors of our life story.  We get to choose which characters get the most lines and the strongest roles in each scene.  Not because we are directing them but when it comes to the narrative of the story, we are the voice of the narrator.  God invites us to look at what we are authorizing as influential stories and people in our lives.  When others share about their lives whether written or spoken it is always done from their perspective. We are the same.  Whether the story has a good or bad ending depends on what we are authorizing.  The power of a particular person and their role in a given situation has to be authorized by us before it goes to print.  Having a good or a bad day depends on whether we are authorizing a negative or a positive mindset.  Having hope or despair is contingent on what view we authorize of our past experiences.  As Victor Frank so aptly put it ,  “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”