dailydatewithgod

We have so many choices it can be overwhelming.  Scientists have coined the term decision fatigue to account for how our will power gets zapped from making so many day to day decisions.  It can cause us to not have the needed will to face more important decisions. It seems strange to think one could gain power by taking the decision factor out of something.  In essence, it becomes about being with what is even if we do not have a say in how it goes.  Yet our mindset is always an option.  We may not like the choices we have but we still have a choice.  According to Victor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning, “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.”  When I find myself not liking where I am or what I am dealing with, it does not seem helpful at the outset to realize it is one option not to like it.  If I wanted to go with another option, I could choose to see my circumstances from a different angle and opt out of the victim narrative I have slipped into.  Sometimes it takes a while for me to use the options I have.  Other times I am defeated by the idea of being a victim of my circumstances and I opt to see how this whatever this is, may not be all of what it seems.  When I slip into the space of my heart, I can step away from the content and pay attention to what is going on below the surface.  Perhaps one option is to focus on what I am making it mean and change it for something else.  Another option would be to focus on how I am feeling as a result of the situation and allow determine what purpose the feeling might serve.  Our hearts open up options our minds may have not considered.  Interacting and sharing with others provides options from their perspectives if we want to hear them.  Inviting in God’s eyes to a situation provides more options.  The various avenues to get to additional options are even an option.