Oarless
I’d like to sit down for some coffee with you and Ken Page, whom I mentioned here yesterday.
From that same interview:
“Page saw actors sell their souls in L.A.
” ‘Everything in life is a choice,’ he remarks,
‘and making the right ones determines your life.
The big choices are easy enough, as hard as they may be.
‘It’s the little ones: Do I associate with this person?
Do I alter myself to fit that scenario?
‘In Hollywood, there were people who were like,
“Oh, please, absolutely, just tell me what you want me to do.”
They were a mess, because they were oarless.
‘Their desperation, their loneliness….’ “
You and I know those some of those people, and they’re not just in Los Angeles.
At times we have been those people.
Today, notice your small choices.
Choose not be “oarless.”
joescheets 
With all of the opportunities and decisions to make everyday (seems like more each year!), I find myself praying for God’s guidance and will in my life.
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I hear ya, Bill.
Joining you in those prayers, and thanking you for doing the same.
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I just envisioned a scene from one of my favorite movies. A high-powered, glass-ceiling-crashing female ad exec inherits a baby. She considers giving her away, but thinks better of it. When the company she works for begins to devalue her, saying she is getting soft, she quits and buys, sight-unseen, a home on 42-acres in a tiny Vermont town. When they first move, in an effort to experience the new life, the scene is of the baby and her on their lake in a row boat. She tells the baby that this is so not like the rowing machine; she is going to take a break. Before she has completely let go and too late to recapture them, the oars are gone. As she sits there, with a baby in an oar-less-boat, in the middle of a lake, she screams help, I have always related! Thanks to this devotional, I know why. One of the times He has my undivided attention! Concentrating on making the small choices today.
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