We all have choices to make.
An easy slide appears to be into the belief that I can't choose because of the variety of things that have been done to me or that are going on around me; because I am a victim and, therefore, impoverished to the point that I can no longer choose.
We all can still make choices...and, in fact, do anyway.
Granted, awful things DO happen—consequences of other people's choices, consequences of my own, and sometimes of neither (...whatever happened just happened, as far as we can tell). These realities can make choosing extremely challenging.
But, we all still have the power of choice.
And, we all have choices to make.
An easy slide appears to be into the belief that I can't choose because of the variety of things that have been done to me or that are going on around me; because I am a victim and, therefore, impoverished to the point that I can no longer choose.
We all can still make choices...and, in fact, do anyway.
Granted, awful things DO happen—consequences of other people's choices, consequences of my own, and sometimes of neither (...whatever happened just happened, as far as we can tell). These realities can make choosing extremely challenging.
But, we all still have the power of choice.
And, we all have choices to make.
Society—which meant pagan society, limited by the horizons and prospects of life “in this world”—was regarded by them as a shipwreck from which each single individual had to swim for their life. . . . These were people who believed that to let oneself drift along, passively accepting the tenets and values of what they knew as society, was purely and simply a disaster. The fact that the Emperor was now Christian and that the “world” was coming to know the Cross as a sign of temporal power only strengthened them in their resolve.
