July 20, 2008

From: Gary West
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:58 PM
Subject: Choices

Our whole American society is set up to make the most of our freedom of
choice.

We can choose to buy, sell, marry, divorce, charge more or less.

That is the beginning of a vast array of choices that we can make.

We can choose to move, or stay.

We can choose to work, or play.

We can choose to express ourselves or to remain silent.

We can choose to read and write or not.

We can choose from so many choices that others cannot.

The thing we can't do is choose the future, change the number of
our days, or change the past.

We are just like the other inhabitants of earth since the dawn of
time.

We are subject to the curse of death and the length of our days
are numbered by the maker.

We cannot surprise the maker, he is not caught off guard or
surprised at untimely death.

He is not set back at the duration of our life. He has predicted
the future. He knows the end. He was here before the dawn of time. When
time stops he will still exist.

Technology, medicine, food, energy, and all the science in the
world is subject to the old earth rules.

He is not.

The new earth will have new rules, the birth pains of its delivery,
the birth pains of our delivery from this life to the next is a pain
that is wrapped with anticipation.

My anticipation for the reunion in heaven is the only offset for
the loss.

The pain is great, the loss is tremendous. The contractions are
closer.

We experience the rebirth here in the spirit. We then will
experience the rebirth into new bodies, in a new earth.


That is a continuation of the transformation, the promise, the
power of the resurrection.

For now we are, and soon we will not be, then we will be forever

We are expended on the editing floor of time.

Time that has been foretold and is now unfolding in front of us.

Our lives are like scenes from a long movie, we are bit players as
the hero and villain play out the major act.

Our part may seem a choice but it has been scripted before our
birth. Each role has an alternate ending.

Heaven or Hell is the only choice we can really make. All other
choices are just play acting for the one decision that determines the
location of our continued existence.

"The choice"

Gary