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From a thought in   10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever   by James MacDonald,   (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And that is a very important distinction.   My parents loved me very much and they did everything they could to protect me but they didn’t always prevent things from happening because they knew they would help me learn and help me grow.   James says, “God doesn’t always keep hard things from happening. Here’s why. He has higher purposes for our pain.”   Yes, but if he really loved me but He does really love me and I can trust Him. He goes on, “ God may allow pain to humble us. When we are brought low by pain, we see how much we need Him. One of C. S. Lewis’s best-known comments describes pleasure as God’s whispers and pain as God’s megaphone!” Another reason is, “ God sometimes allows pain to restore us. Some of you were so far from God, off on your own, running away from God, going w...

From a thought in   10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever   by James MacDonald,   (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) We are looking with James MacDonald at 10 important choices for us to make and choosing God is the most important one.   It is the foundation of all your other choices because it will help you in making all the other ones. Now James says,   “Since we’re talking about the God who created us, there’s not much point in arguing over who chose whom first. I suggest we get over the distracting discussions of who chooses who and go at this from the only angle we actually experience— our own. We choose God. That’s the way it feels, and that’s the way it functions. And until you get out of your armchair or ivory tower and choose God for your life, you will always be missing the main ingredient for human happiness.” Until you choose God for your life you will always be missing the main ingredient for your...

From a thought in 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever by James MacDonald, (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That is so important for us to realize. James says, “Someone argues: But I didn’t choose to have cancer or for my company to go bankrupt. I didn’t want my spouse to leave me or my child to rebel.” And that may seem to be true to us but he goes on, “Well, first of all, there is probably more personal responsibility in each of those situations than any of us readily admits. Secondly, your choices may not have entirely determined those outcomes, but there are many people who are doing better than you are in a similar circumstance, and their improved outcomes from such terrible conditions are 100 percent related to how they have chosen to deal with them. It’s not what happens to us, but how we choose to respond makes the difference. There is just no escaping the power of personal choice.” He says, “So why even try? Why no...