by Adrian Valentine

Created on: June 24, 2008

Choose to Live, Love, and Peace.
Imagine life without Faith. Now imagine being imprisoned by your inability to really love and believing you're poison to everyone, including your children. Imagine self abuse of your mind, body, and soul. Imagine substituting instant gratification for life time gratefulness, love and peace.
For me, it is all too real. The hurt, hate, anger, and inability to love, really love. Seventy Five Percent of my life was what I refer to as the "walking dead". Totally self centered, absorbed in my own imperfections, wounds, and worst of all abandoning the people who needed me the most. How could anyone be so irresponsible, cold, or lost? I ask myself this often and the only answer is a "wicked path" only brings wickedness, pain, loss and offense in life hurting innocent people with every action.

Truth of the matter is I have given up on figuring out the W's of the journey into a dead cold dark place having to relive each painful memory feeding a predator of hearts and souls. There is no wisdom in being a foolish past-monger; it's a trap for the "walking dead".
I CHOOSE to walk in the light with Jesus Christ, born again into living God's word. This walk has been going on now for five years as a young Christian, some refer to as Crawling learning to walk again. Every day faith grows stronger, peace dwells deeper in my heart and soul. Love, unconditional love flows through me matched with ability to forgive offenders. Overnight, say not. One day at time, say so. Being forgiven is huge, so huge the burden of Guilt, hate, anger, and painful memories are no more. Sinful, lustful ways, greed, and inability to parent ineffectively are behind me now. Not only has the Lord forgiven me these sins, I have chosen to forgive myself as well. A lot easier said than done for me, admitting wrong, admitting sins so deep, to being dishonest and asking for redemption and restoration. Time came to heal and fix all the brokenness possible even it meant surrendering to God everything heart and soul. I am new, I am strong, I can love, laugh, and cope with being a parent like never before.
Every negative clich' one can apply lies in my path but not without antidote, accountability without excuses. Believe it I have heard many of them thrown like stones of defense or in disbelief someone, like me, can change for the better, even during late life. Who can blame them for reacting this way? It's human nature, duty to protect our hearts from intruders amongst us. Who wants history to repeat itself as if to be glutens for pain? I can safely state not most. So then what? What are the choices? What is the right thing to do?
Believers, forgivers, followers of Christ reach deep inside with a prayer of hope brokenness can be fixed, find strength through forgiveness, repent, forgive yourself, the Lord has.
Non-Believers, lost, and wicked lay down your artificial defense CHOOSE the LORD to be your SAVIOR, surrender all to God and begin to crawl in the light faithfully, disciplined, ready to walk upright unbroken, loved and with peace in your life. It's the only way out, free will, choose your consequences.
Be a witness to the consequences in your life. We know every action has a consequence, it's your God given choice.what is yours?

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