Life is like a game of chess.
It's the outcome of the choices you make.
The way our past decisions
shape our present circumstances
resemble a game of chess.
We make a move with a selected piece.
Once we lift our finger,
we cannot take back that move
Or it’s called cheating.
In our own life situations,
we wish we can and start everything again.
But it’s not to be.
What’s done is done..the words you said are said.
The action taken is taken.
Time cannot be reversed.
We can make a series of bad moves
and still remain in the game.
But we put ourselves at a disadvantage
and find ourselves scrambling to survive.
Why make a bad move if we have good ones available to make?
Often when we make bad decisions,
bringing disaster upon ourselves,
We justify ourselves, finding excuses,
throwing the blame on others,
saying we are victims of forces beyond our control,
too proud to admit mistakes and listen to advice.
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Past decisions set the stage for present options.
We can excel at stupidity if we want to.
We can sleep late, lose our job,
commit adultery behind people’s backs,
gamble away our life savings, neglect our responsibilities,
deceive our closest friends and parents,
our life partners and children.
We can wait until the last moment
before the final exam, before start studying.
We can waste our times away
drinking and having fun.
But we cannot alter the consequences of our choices.
Why make the game harder than it already is?
Life is hard enough as it is, full of risk, pain and confusion.
Why make it harder by thrusting into circumstances we can avoid.
Why dig ourselves into a hole if we can avoid it.
We have freedom to choose.
We do not, however, have the freedom
to alter the consequences of the choices we made. ...
If anything, our feeble attempts to get out
of bad consequences only increases the problem,
making us live a life of denial and self-deceit.
We wish we could reverse decisions already made.
It is always too late to change
the consequences of our past decisions.
Once we make a decision,
it becomes a part of our unchangeable past,
which in turn creates a new set of circumstances
in which to deal with in the present,
like a game of chess,
for the Queen is now under siege.
Past decisions set the stage for present options.
We make decisions that reconfigured
the circumstances of our lives,
each decision creating the context
for subsequent decisions.
Each bad choice put us
into a more disadvantaged position.
Because of foolishness,
we fail to take advantage of good options available.
Instead we continue to make bad choices
because of stubbornness.
We suffer the consequences of our foolish decisions
Unless we pass our foolish choices and consequences to God,
if you are humble enough to do so,
for Him to do the impossibles,
by turing water into wine
by turning bad choices into benefit,
that is if you’re humble enough to believe.
Everything has a reward…goodness or evil.
“When I die, that’s the end of it.”
Is it? How do you know?
The Korean senior student at the Technical College
shot others and himself…
that’s the end of him?
If that is, then life on this planet earth
is most miserable
Because there’s no justice.
If life is just a rat race and survival of the fittest
according to Darwin’s theory,
then life has no meaning..
May as well eat and drink for tomorrow we all die…
We all die, it comes to the same thing…
whether young or old, rich or poor,
famous or unknown, educated or ignorant,
powerful or weak,
religious or atheistic, happy or depressed,
we all die.
More than 5000 men and women
on September 11 2001
began their rountine day with a cup of coffee,
having booted up their computers
and begun placing telephone calls
None had any indication that within the hour
they would step into eternity..
Or is there an eternity?
Our lives on this earth are only temporary.
The world will come to its end.
What’s important is eternity
It’s what is deep inside us that makes us
different and unique,
Not our achievements and accomplishments.
True satisfaction cannot be achieved from this world.
It can only be found in God
