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Yes, the road of life has many paths. Some of these roads lead up and some roads down. One day joys the next suffering. It is a world of absolute beauty and at the same time the most hideous ugly. Yet, I and many acknowledge it was all made by God. Yes, and some who wonder deny and question How a God of love and perfection could allow and make such an imperfect world or allow it to exist. Yes, everything in and of it was made by God and for God but man is the one who turned it evil. Am I saying god created man evil? No God made man to choose freely and since day one man has.

 

God speaks to who He is and why he sent His Son. He talks in His Word of creating some for the wrath. He stated that in His Word. Yes, it is there if you search. He talks of being an angry God, a jealous God. Yes, even Moses was punished for a transgression and did not enter the promised land. Some wonder if the path you walk was laid out for you before you were born and all that you do was and is known to God before you do it. It is called predestination, meaning you have an end already selected for you. That we all won't know until we cross over. However, we all have free choice and as they say to make our own bed and lie in it. Your choice to do good and your choice to do evil. Yet we all know that all men sin and fall short and commit evil. So we know that God already realizes how wicked we all are. Yes, even the most saintly fail. es and He sent someone to help us becuase He realized we can't do it alone.

 

So as I look around at all that God created and all that I see that is beauty, as example the creation of life from conception to birth, I see the hand of man destroying it for selfish reasons. I see an act of love that created a unique being out of a union of love and I also can see in the same union of two people some who only looked at it as a selfish act of pleasure. They only wanted sex not a child. Yes, their desires, goals, objectives hindered by its arrival and arrival that innocent did not ask for. Yes, it was pleasure, lust, self gratification, vanity, ego and everything else that speaks to the consummate me person.

 

Then I see the death of that child, for the same reasons. Oh sure hide it in a lie, shroud it in choice, say it isn't a person, it does not feel, it does not know, it is as they say an embryo and that it is your right to chose its life or death. Yet, in the end, in the very end and in the deepest part you know the truth. I condemn no one and especially the person out of weakness, fear, anxiety who commits the act. However, the one who commits it for themselves one cannot fathom.

So today, tomorrow, whenever when you smile, laugh, share a moment of love with your family and those you hold dear enjoy and savor the moment because as sure as it is it will flee you and a trial will arise. It has been foretold, trials will always be with us. Some will be big and some little but they will come. So, do not envy those who have and life seems all joy for them, for their reward is coming. Be thank ful for all you have or were given and do not question the path you are on. Remember perhaps you will change direction if you care to? Perhaps that trial is your doing or perhaps there is another purpose? Who can tell but God. The hope we trust in is that it is but for a moment.

 

I truly hope you will never experience the trial, I truly pray you don't have to but I suspect you will. As for me my answer is very clear. Whatever the path, accept the cross and continue forward and whatever God has ordained it is for His purpose and His plan.