What if...

There are so many questions I could ask myself about the past. What if I didn’t move to Texas and stayed in New York? What if I decided that taking a child on would be too difficult and I never became a mother. What if I became a nurse instead of a teacher? What if this… what if that...? Every decision we make has consequences, good and bad. There is little we can do to change the past so why do we spend so much time dwelling on it? Maybe it is human nature to think back instead of thinking ahead. The most beneficial thing we can do is learn from past mistakes, be grateful for the miracles that have come and to think of all things still possible. There are so many different directions our lives can still go and we have more control of what happens next than what has already happened. Life is a process; our situations are constantly changing, forcing us to make decisions. In this process of change we are developing our character, either we are refining who we are or we are slipping slowly away from becoming who we are destined to become. The wonderful thing about the plan of salvation is that we choose our destiny. Heavenly Father will not force us to make the right choices he can only nudge us here and there with his spirit, however in the end the ultimate decision of where our life will lead is up to us.