Voiceless Expression

Hey guys…
I’m sorry for my absence… a rather extended absence, too… I don’t really have any excuse for it except… I’m lazy, i guess… or just forgetful… maybe both. idk… anyway. on with my “fruits for thought”

So… today in my Godly Women class, Mrs. Baker came in for a “knit night” and said something that kinda struck me.

“Love and Joy are choices we have to make in our lives” or something along those lines, anyway.  But how true is that? I mean… I’ve known love to be a choice.  A very difficult one sometimes, too. This made me think more though… Love is a choice. Joy, also, a choice when I think about it.  Well, so are the rest of the fruits of the spirit…

Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control.

All of these beautiful qualities (I guess) are more than just desirable acts, but also choices. Choices that we all, as human beings created by God, must make, no, *get* to make daily. We have the option to shun the fruits of the spirit, or use them in our day to day lives because God is just that great.  Stemming from this is something that has truly been bothering me lately.  Probably just because I’m a hormonal teenage girl… huzzah for having enough hormones to be able to say I’m the equivalent to an adult shooting drugs up their arm because of the dang things….

anyway. Love. I really and truly is a choice that we have to make. That I have to make.  The funny thing is… looking back on all of those silly and pathetic little crushes I’ve had through the years (and probably will have again, I’m just not experiancing any at the current moment…) were all… choices.  Everyone will say “oh,  you stupid teenagers, your too young to know what love is” when, no. they’re wrong. dead wrong.  We aren’t too young to know what love is… I think that as a teenager, I possibly have the opportunity to experience the “feelings” of love at their strongest, but not only that, I have the opportunity to love my friends.  Just because we’re young teenagers, you silly silly adults, doesn’t mean that we can’t make the decision to love those around us, such as our friends and for those oh so lucky, or most of the time unfortunate souls who have a boyfriend or girlfriend.  So, even as a teenager, I can experience love.  Weather you agree with me or not, i strongly agree that its a choice, and those who feel they are in love, are making to choice to be in love.  Now, when I say this, keep in mind that I’m not saying that its smart for us to be “in love” THAT way at this age… but ya know… it can happen.  I’m just kinda tired of hearing otherwise.

Everything in this life is a choice because God is gracious and loving and almighty and wonderful, and he didn’t want robotic followers.  He gave us choices, and those include Love, Joy, Peace, etc….

~**Kalyn