After careful observation, I would have to say that one of the greatest, most significant, and truest truths about life is this:  Everything Changes.

I know I’ve said it before.  And a million others have said it before as well.  Maybe even one million and one.  But it is the ultimate reality of life.  Everything Changes.

Look in the mirror.  You’ve changed.   Oh my gawwwwddd how you’ve changed……
And look around you.  All around you.  Every single thing your eyes lay to rest on…. is in a state of constant change.  Right down to the very last molecule of that pencil on the counter top.

But some things change much differently than others.  If you pull an ice cube from the freezer… it really has no choice but to melt.  That is… if your house is warmer than my sister-in-law’s house… it will melt.

And the corn that was planted in the spring.  It really doesn’t choose to sprout and grow into 7-foot tall stalks, eventually only to shrivel up and die.  It simply happens that way.   Soon, it will be pig food…. despite the fact that it overcame so many corn-growing obstacles in its lifetime.

The same thing happens to us on many levels.  We are born into this place, this space, this time.  And we grow.  As hard as we try to stop ourselves from doing this…. like riding bikes without helmets when we were kids.. ..  disobeying the 10-second-rule for the Reese Cup that dropped on the pavement ….  smoking cigarettes and drinking hard whiskey….  eating deep fried chickens…. and falling down stairs….  our bodies push right through it all.

Yes.  We push right through.  Some of us push harder and last longer than others… but eventually, our bodies will quit.  Pig food.

So what is the difference between us and corn?  Molecularly, not a lot.  But somewhere in that make-up…. that put-togetherness of us…. WE have the ability to choose.  Yes.  Choice.

We can make decisions about a plethora of things that happens in our life time.  In fact, we make a million decisions…. maybe even a million and one.   We have something inside our molecular makeup that can not be seen or operated-on or transfused.

Some people call it a soul. Others have named it a conscience.  Others say it is a spirit, a psyche, a life force, a will.

Name it what you will.  But we can choose to DO.   Every minute of every day.

And the only thing I know about that… … .. is this.
When I am choosing the right way… I can feel it is the right way.

Sometimes making decisions isn’t quite as fundamentally ingrained.  Like… do you pick the blue dress, or the red one?  Or take the job with J.P. Morgan, or Citibank?   Those are more intellectual decisions.

I am talking about the Soul Decisions.  The right or the wrong.
I think we all know when we are walking on the side of the good light… and when we trip over into the shadows.

It is a big responsibility.  But I for one am glad to have it.  And, I am thankful that things change as they do… and that I have a choice in how to live, and to BE.

And I’m glad not to be a cornstalk.   After careful observation.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.  —  Lao Tzu