They collect nuts, it’s in their DNA. They choose which nuts they want, but nuts are about all they collect. They don’t have a choice in the matter.
We, however, we get to choose what we collect. We get to choose what friends we collect, what skills we collect, what ideas we collect, and what words we want to collect in our minds and hearts.
We even get to collect world views and character traits for ourselves. And if we don’t like the ones we have, we can throw them out and collect new ones.
We can collect happy thoughts or sad ones, proactive habits or lazy ones.
We can collect healthy relationships or unhealthy ones, wisdom or foolishness, kindness or cruelty, generosity or greed.
We can even collect light and darkness. It is our choice.
The amount of freedom we have to shape our lives through what we collect is unlimited.
But the decision is our, and ours alone. We are given a body to live in and a timeframe for which we are here, but the wake and legacy we leave as individuals is completely up to us and is entirely influenced by what we choose to collect.
The way you write and the wisdom of your words amazes and thrills me, since I have had the privilege of knowing you since you were a little girl who played a lot with my little girl. Your former post on expectations was also very wise, and a dear friend of mine referred to it after we had had a conversation on that very topic. I love to watch the way you are using the gifts God has given you, dear Claudia. Keep up the good work!
Your words always make my heart so happy Mrs. Darity!!! All my life you have been such a powerful source of encouragement!!!! You are a true gift!!! Love you!
Opps! I should have written amaze and thrill (without the s). So sorry. I didn’t know how to edit.