You become the decisions you make in your life.
I was fortunate enough to survive the depths of hell from my drug abuse and am living proof of what bad and good decisions will do to a life. In a couple of weeks I will celebrate my 25th year of sobriety and even to this day I find myself working hard to make the right decision a day at a time.  “Doing the next right thing” is a great way to live and build a life, a family and a career.  The key is knowing what “right” is.
On Tuesday morning of this week I had a great bike workout and the reason I know it was great was because my quads and hams were “screaming” at me. So I thought it would be an excellent time to sit in our hot tub and turn the jets up to full throttle and blast my leg muscles.
As I was making my way across our driveway to our house from our exercise room, it was raining and there was some thunder rolling around.
So here is the deal; for a free thinker/risk taker/envelope pusher (or as my wife would say, “idiot”) like myself, the sound of thunder and sitting in the hot tube doesn’t register as a potential life altering event.
So I head to the hot tub and I look to the sky to see if there is any lightning; no lightning…but it is “rumbling.” Then for some unknown reason (I had done my morning prayer and devotion) the thought crossed my mind, “even though I’ve not seen any lightning this morning…what if????”
So instead of sitting in the hot tub I went back inside the house to stretch and within a couple minutes the biggest darn bolt of lightning I’ve ever witnessed hit right out by our hot tub and fried most of our electrical appliances in our house in the process.
My wife came running out of the bedroom as the strike of lightning scared the living crap out of her and she was worried about my safety (hmm, I guess she really does like me). When she saw I was alive, she was quite relieved until I shared with her how close I came to getting fried in the hot tub.
Here I am, so proud of my decision and yet she was bewildered and perplexed that choosing not to sit in a hot tub during a thunderstorm is a decision I would be proud of as she said only an idiot (censored) would ever contemplate sitting in a hot tub in a thunderstorm.
On a serious note, I came within one “simple” decision of dying and many of us do not realize how close we are to losing everything, including our lives due to one bad decision.
Moral of the story; you become the decisions you make in your life.
…so I heard my wife sharing this story with a friend yesterday and she said she could not imagine having to tell people for the next 40 years that she lost her husband in a hot tub accident.  See, she really did appreciate my decision. 🙂
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all yur heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths.”
