Copyright 2025 Don Ray
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CONFLICTED CHOICE
Conflicts, between nations and people,
inevitable.
Collapse of systems, inevitable.
Conflict internally, inevitable.
Conflict, what to do, the assessment of what is
right. Leaving one’s children to earn money to feed those
children. Choosing among overlapping demands of friends, family,
obligations, God, church, team, patriotism, pets, colleagues.
Conflict and choice…..there is the core nature
of this worldly life. Each moment at work, playing with children, helping
a friend, supporting the team, is a moment not given to all the others.
Law and order, compassion, enforcement,
acceptance…...each of them right, each justifiable. Each choice of what
to do bringing to light everything not done.
We defer the choice to holy texts, to imams and
preachers, to team colors, to authority, blessed authority, anyone, anyone to
save us from the torment of choice.
There will be suffering, and we don't want to
make it worse, but the lovingly purchased pet food entailed suffering and death
of natural resources or confined domesticated livestock.
Conflict and choices, enough choice by one group
of people leading to conflict with that other group who made a different
choice.
It is all good. It will all induce
suffering.
Some agonize over the choices. Others
don't.
"Just make them" time and mortality
demand. Decide who will suffer, who you will neglect, while trying to
love and help the others.
Every opportunity is from God?.....but the
"ruler of this world", satan or coyote or crow, confuses the issue.
Note and observe, record without judgement, then
adjust as feels right. That is a way to avoid taking control. It is
a way to make informed decisions.
This is a finite world. It is so in order
to promote values and awareness. It is the big Choice that
matters.
It is a world of mortality. Only in the
limitations of mortality do values and priorities arise.
God does indeed place before us opportunities,
but we cannot take advantage of all of them. The real opportunity is the
Choice…..and there is no right answer for that Choice. Manifold
opportunities to rescue mean manifold necessities to neglect. It is
simply so in this world. It is important, critically important, to
recognize that.
Give up control, but don't think that means
escaping terrible choices. The desire to escape moral choices leads to
horrors of ISIS, Taliban, and Baptists. Make informed decisions. Be
aware of what you are doing. Accept, and this is critical, what you
cannot do as determined by each choice of what to do.
Yes, each life opportunity, each opportunity to
serve and help and heal and rescue is from God, personally delivered to you,
demanding your response. And you cannot do it all. It is a huge act
of faith and spiritual growth to recognize and accept that.
Mortality demands faith to accept what cannot be. Eternity assures all good will be.
Copyright 2025 Don Ray
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