Choose Life!

I have been thinking a lot this week about how we have a choice every day between what is good for us and what is bad. At some levels this daily choice is between life and death. Sounds extreme doesn't it?  But the accumulated effect of our daily choice and unconscious choices (habits) pile up.  With physical  choices this leads to ill health if we choose bad things and good health if we choose good things.  I think that is true of our spiritual life as well. Yes , we have a spiritual life!

In fact it was one of the readings at mass that set me off thinking about all this. Do I choose life on a daily basis? And in a way just as importantly can I teach myself to choose life.

This was the reading

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (New International Version)

“this day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

After all when it comes to it we have one chance at our life. We live once and deserve to live to the full.  Can we  make that choice?  To choose what blesses our life and that which enriches it at a physical and spiritual level.