From Bad to Good

Choices. Everyday I make choices...Starting when I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night.....choices. Should I shower, shave, eat breakfast, what should I eat for breakfast, I like donuts, should I eat donuts, coffee, grande or venti, go fast, go slow, listen to music on the radio, put in a cd, what cd should I listen to.....you get the picture.
There are other choices that are life changing. Who do I marry? What college should I go to? Should I go to college or into the armed forces? Should I do drugs? Should I have sex? Should I take that job? Should I leave this job? Should I make myself throw up to lose weight? Should I starve myself? Should I go to church? Do I believe in God? Am I living a good life? Once again.......you get the picture.
I posed this question in our youth forum and I will state it again here:
"People always say that there are detours in life and that through God one can get back on the path He intended. I would pose this question: What if the detours of life are actually the path that we are supposed to be on?"
We are constantly taking "detours" in our lives but those detours are actually what shapes us into the outstanding human beings that we become. I have this friend who spent many years in the deep darkness of drug use and just recently has come out of that horrible trip to enter college. When you ask him what he wants to do with his life he states that he wants to get into psychology. That is what I mean. Many people would look at his past and shake their heads in a disapproving manner. Why do we spend so much time on the past!! What is this young man doing right now is what I want to know. His "detour" will most likely end up helping many people overcome the very addictions that he was possessed by. Maybe there is a young man or woman who is going to need his help in the future and without the "detour" taken by my friend they would never get it. That wrong path is going to save a life.
Now please don't walk away from this and say that Todd has given me permission to take drugs, drink massive amounts of alchohol and sleep with everyone around! What I want you to realize is that each of us has taken detours that have led us to places of despair and sadness.....the key to all of this is to not stay in that place. Move! Keep moving! Look for the opportunities that God is providing for you and take advantage of them....grab someone and tell them that the path that they are about to go down is not worth it....call a friend and take them to that first AA meeting....hug that person who just seems to get knocked down all of the time and tell them that it will be okay.......

Let your detours.....become your paths....