The Power of Choice

I am not one to usually go to talks that involve religion but recently I went to the opening night series talk by Joyce Meyer at the Air Canada Centre. Joyce Meyer is considered to be one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers, and she is a New York Times bestselling author. Through Joyce Meyer Ministries, she teaches on hundreds of subjects, has authored over 80 books and conducts approximately 15 conferences per year.

Most of Meyer’s talks, though they have teachings from the Bible here and there, are motivational and inspiring. This talk was especially intriguing to me because she focused on the issue of choices and how it is through choices that you make that can determine the way that you live.

I find that choices we make determine so much of our lives and having the ability to make choices is a gift in itself. It is through choice that we determine whether we are to live in happiness and peace or to live negatively and feel angry at the world around us. For me, for the most part choices have helped me to get to where I am today. It has been through choice that I made the decision to stay on my path of healing and no longer let my past define how I was going to live my life.

I have learned that everyone has the power of choice within them and the talk by Joyce Meyers definitely reinforced the importance of how choice plays an integral role in our lives. Choices and how we choose to listen to them, after all is how we all learn to live in a good way.