The Lost Choice

The following excerpt is from the book "The Lost Choice" by Andy Andrews. A truly amazing book that I plan to recommend to everyone I meet. The book truly makes you take a look at your life and the decisions you've made and will make in your life. I think this truly a must read for everyone!

I made you different from the others.

On the planet earth, there has never been one like you....and there will never be again.

Your spirit, your thoughts and feelings, your ability to reason....all exist in no one else.

Your eyes are a masterpiece, incomparable, and windows to a soul that is uniquely yours.

A single strand of your hair has been created especially for you. Of the multitudes who have come before you and the multitudes who may follow, not one of them duplicates the formula with which I made you.

I made you different from the others.

The blood that flows through your veins flows through the heart of one whom I have chosen. The rarities that make you one of a kind, my child, are no mere accident or quirk of fate.

I made you different in order that you might make a difference.

You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make...every single action you take...matters.

but remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make...every action you do not take...matters just as much!

Your actions cannot be hoarded, saved for later, or used selectively. By your hand, millions of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this very day. But the opposite is true as well. Millions of lives are also altered, caught up in an entirely different chain of events...if you choose to wait.

You posses the power of choice, free will! You have been given everything you need to act, but the choice is yours alone. And beginning this very moment, you will choose wisely.

Now go. And never feel inadequate again. Do not dwell in thoughts of insignificance or wander aimlessly, lost, like a sheep.

You are powerful...you matter...and you have been found!

You are my choice!

Your father

A Cold November Day

A Cold November Day

A lost and lonely woman shivered and closed her eyes,

As memories of much loved yesterdays ran through her tortured mind.

Though it seemed like only yesterday,

It had been a year since God had called her man away.

Leaving her standing there lost and lonely...on a cold November day.

Her memories were racing...small smiles mixed with tears,

Recalling a single, beautiful lifetime...lovingly remembered and well lived years.

So many dreams and wishes that now would never come to life.

But oh what a privilege and an honor it was, to be his loving wife.

In the wind she seemed to hear him whisper.

Sweetheart you need to move on and live your life.

Live a life without sorrow, filled with laughter and light.

Live, love, grow and move on. Dream new dreams and be happy.

You know this is what I want for you my beautiful, lovely wife.

She laid a rose against the stone that marked his too short life.

Wiping away the tears she smiled and thanked God

For letting her be his wife.

With a love filled heart and healed soul she turned and walked away

Her brand new life was starting...on that cold November day. 

Written by Bruce Hoch