I appreciate - from firsthand experience - the importance of making some life decisions before a given situation presents itself. For example, it's a bad idea to wait until you're in the middle of a make-out session to decide abstinence is the best choice for you. Decide that beforehand, and you're much more likely to stick to the decision you've made. (Completely unrelated side note: Thank you, Bristol Palin, for not backing down from your commitment to abstinence, even when Oprah repeatedly tried to get you to do so.) But I wonder if sometimes we simplify things too much. There are some things that only life experience can teach us, and if we never have certain life experiences, it's easy to see other people's choices as black and white in the area of morality. I don't think that means our individual ideals, choices, and commitments should be different. But maybe - sometimes - we should try more to understand there may be wiggle room we can't account for in our theoretical imaginings.
Did I make that as clear as mud? Good.
1 comment:
slightly clearer I think.
and it makes me glad that my decisions are only accountable to God (well, I guess there are some decisions that directly involve other people...but I mean that those people not directly involved really don't get to judge my personal situations.) and now I'm confusing myself as I think about the various branches to this line of thought--politicians, teachers, ... *sigh*
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