: life is full of choices ... choose with care :

... whether it is a 'posture' at work, your 'default' mode in relationships, the way you think your creator 'wired' you, or just as Popeye used to say ... "I yam what I yam" we really do have a choice in life, many in fact.

DDash 'blogged over the weekend about not letting your suffering define you. Bing posted about patience, or lack thereof, and Hugh over at Gaping Void had this cartoon up last week ( the actual post is worth reading as well ... 'Good Ideas Have Lonely Childhoods' ).

Maybe it all got me thinking about what Dennis was teaching yesterday at SBF from Titus 2 when he suggested that a Popeye mentality is not what scripture teaches ... we are to change, we are to grow ( up ), we are to mature. But those things require choices ... which, like last post, require a level of intentionality, perspective, guts, honesty and willingness to solicit ( and hear, listen to, respond to ) feedback.

I love this cartoon ... how many bored people do you know who end up complaining about being in the sheep camp? Fewer end up lonely as a wolf, with 'lone wolf' syndrome, but are bitter or edgy or just-not-fun-to-be-around? Wonder what a healthy middle ground is?

Food for thought ...

dlc