Choices? Life is full of choices. The mark of a truly free man is the ability to make choices. God gave us that freedom... else he would have created that minus that ability to choose. And with that came the freedom... He allows us to choose. Love and obedience are not forced upon us but for us to choose. Else we'd have been created like robots, behaving just like the computer chips which are designed to do our bidding...
Yet this freedom for many of us, it's something that we take for granted. For some, it's something that is fleeting. Yet for others, it's something that comes with limitations. And yet for many, they have no freedom to choose at all.
I am glad for this freedom to choose. Of course there are some things in life which I can't choose... like my parents but I'm glad for my parents. Who and where I am today would not be possible without them. I'm grateful for the way they put my interest before theirs for without those sacrifices I would not be here!
I'm glad for the freedom to choose my spouse... Dread to think how life would turn out if arranged marriages had still been the norm. Cannot imagine ending up with someone I only get to know on my wedding day.
I'm glad for the freedom to choose my faith... the years of searching as a young adult has impressed upon my heart that my eternity lies with the God of my faith. I searched... read the 'holy books'... the Teachings of Buddha, Bhagavad Gita, The Quran and of course the Bible. And in the end, I returned to the grounding of the faith of my childhood because my search brought me back there. I took up Philosophy.. eastern and western... read them as part of my course and also in my own time. In the end, I made my choice... I am glad that I have that freedom to choose.
Freedom to choose... today I am thankful for that. For when we don't have that freedom, we are but tools and pawns of a greater power play. Because when we cannot choose, the choices made for us toy with our emotions and like string puppets we dance to the tune of the master puppeteer!
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at a micro level, yes. at a macro level? you think you have?
At a macro level... yes, to a certain degree, still. But at the micro level, freedom of faith in Malaysia for a certain race is out of the question because the constitution makes it out of reach of some.
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