Choice is a powerful tool. It creates opportunity and space for an altered outcome to a situation. It is what kept Corrie Ten Boom alive in order for her to survive the Holocaust. She could have chosen to give up or to be swallowed up by the suffering she witnessed and endured. However, she chose to focus on what she could do and who her God, the God of the universe, was and is. She determined to move forward and endure the hardship in order to be more fully connected with God.
This is the same resolve that we need to have, dear Reader, if we are intending to move through our hurt and pain. We must resolve to heal and take the steps needed in order to shift the outcome of our hardship. It simply begins with a choice. As Jesus also stated to the paralytic man in the Gospel of John, "Do you want to be made well?" We also have to ask this very question to ourselves. In our pain and our hurt, "do I want to be made well?" And if so, then our actions need to agree with our answer.
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