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Choices

by Alex W. Dimmig

 

    Before I start to write this essay, I have to say that my mind has a strange way of getting me to write. I usually starts out as an idea or I am struck by an event in the current day. This one started was actually started while I was attending college in Michigan and by a very important Drama Teacher. It is now 8 years later and the seed is finally at its growth potential. I am kept awake at night thinking about this and what I am getting myself into. It is Wednesday Morning of August 23, 2000 and of course I am awake, my brain working overtime on this one idea
    I watch a lot of television, now that’s not a bad thing, it allows me to relax after work and lets me sleep for at least 6-7 hours. This particular day I happen to be watching a show that was cancelled from ABC about 3 years ago and is now re-running on The Sci-Fi Channel. The show is a remake of an old TV series that placed you on an island in the middle of nowhere and granted any wish you want regardless of the consequences. "Fantasy Island" is just so intriguing to me and what it says to me.

    They take 2-3 characters and they ask to be placed in different fantasies, some want to relive a lost romance, others want to be famous, and then others want to be someone else. The show allows them to do this, but there’s a twist, for every action you make there’s an opposite and equal reaction. (Physics 101) That brings me to my title of this essay. The choices we make, good or bad, allows our dreams to become a reality. We make hundreds of choices daily, some are more important than others. In a previous letter I wrote, I confessed my heart to my Lord and close friends. That one choice to write has left me sleepless many nights. Now that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, I have become more open to the Lord’s will in my life. Yea, I get less sleep, but I am at peace and understanding.

    In the next couple of months I have some very big choices to make, and they include moving, changing jobs and even line of employment. Do I move and trust in Jesus Christ to supply my needs? Can I even do that? What am I leaving behind? What am I gaining? I must have a big screw loose, (some people already know that...) My dream that has been planted inside me ever since I met this College Teacher was to operate a non-profit Christian Drama Troupe. Bring together Christian teenagers to preach the Word of God through Drama. But I also want to go farther than what I can put on paper I want to teach the younger generations(K-12) about the issues that they are, will, or already face in the year 2000.

    My decisions in the next 3 months will be a test of my willingness to proceed with my dream. Will I grow roses or weeds? What is your dream? Have you made the right decisions? Are your daily choices of God or You? Hmmmmm.......