Have you ever looked back at your life and thought, “What if?”. You usually think about those forks-in-the-road where you made a life-changing decision. What if you took the other road? I have 2 of those that I think are significant. The first one was when I was in 3rd grade. My parents told me to decide if I wanted to take piano or dance lessons. They couldn’t afford both. I chose piano. What if I had chosen dance? I think I’d be a choreographer on Broadway or something like that. I’d also be skinny! The other big decision in my life happened soon after college at age 21. My parents were selling our house in NY and moving back to Puerto Rico. I had just gotten accepted in to the management training program at K-Mart and assigned to a store in New Jersey. I had to choose between beaches and palm trees or K-Mart in the snow. Guess which I chose. Had I stayed up north, I probably would have gotten my Masters Degree in communication and ended up an advertising executive on Madison Ave.
What has this got to do with today’s lesson? Well, in these next chapters, God laments to Israel, “Oh, had you listened to my commands!” Which brings up another “What if?” question for me. What if, when a friend of mine told me that she — who was also raised Catholic — had become born again, I had asked her about it? I may not have been a prodigal for so many years, as far from God as I could get. (Check out my testimony at the bottom.)
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