“So I always enjoy my time I get to spend with my son on our road trips that we take to visit family and friends..but this last trip on our way back home, Anthony goes commencing to telling me, you know mom if only people would think five steps ahead in their lives..if they would stop long enough to think about what would happen by their choice and decision they make before they make it..Amen..he says you know really it’s not that hard to look around and see other people and their lives and how their living to know how they got there to that place..whether that place would be a good place or a bad place..but if we all could just learn by others..other than not thinking..and just jumping right into whatever it is that we may be thinking is okay..or just not thinking at all..because what we do effects everyone and their lives..the ones that are close to us..but God has given us everything we need to live a great life..but it just takes us to use our minds..to look around and to be smart and learn from others and their choices and their decisions that they’ve made..and think five steps ahead by what can come from the choice or that thing that we’re getting ready to do..he said you know mom the enemy never wants us to look five steps ahead..the enemy always wants us to just do..other than think..Amen..and you know it’s true..we never help ourselves by helping ourselves..we think that whatever we do is fine regardless..even if it is a little thing that we are choosing to do..that little so-called lie..John 8:44..that little sarcastic remark that we make..that bad thought..Philippians 4:6-9..that one bad movie..that one bad video..that one thing that we think well it’s okay..but in reality it’s not..Amen..because the little we do grows into big things in our lives..1 Corinthians 3:6-8..there is nothing little about sin and bad choices it is that we make..we always get something from them..but usually it’s compromise that is the thing we get more than anything in our lives when we do things and we don’t think about what we’re doing..or the effects it will have on us and our lives that we’re living or the lives of our families..cause sin is sin..there is no category..Amen..there is no little sin or big sin..1 John 5:17..for in God’s eyes it is all the same..so just look around you and your life..and look at others and their lives..and think about what your doing..Amen..they say that our lives are made by our choices..we always say someone else is the fault..but in reality we are..we do us and our lives..no one else does..but if we want good lives..we make good choices and good decisions every day of our lives..not just once a month or even once a week..but daily all day long we think about the things we’re doing..and we think and we should always think about what could happen and what may happen..and think is this benefiting me and my family in the long run..cause I am gonna say that everything we do and daily so matters and matters greatly..Amen..so let us use what God has given us..and let us do wise things..let us make wise and smart decisions for our lives..cause I know that when I was a child and even a young adult I made choices and decisions that we’re not at all good ones..and I did suffer the consequences from them..we all do..but since becoming a child of God..I try to do better..and choose better for my life..am I perfect in my choosing?..not always..I am not..but I am loved and I am forgiven by a perfect and upright Father..will we miss the mark so to speak?..probably so..but we still must do our best..and choose wisely..and choose carefully..every single day of our lives..and as Anthony had said think five steps ahead in your life about the choice or decision you are about to make..and see where it could lead you..Amen..so let us do our best guys..let us live to please Jesus..and let us live to walk and abide in His light..for in His light there is no darkness nor is there any occasion of stumbling..1 John 2:10..for it is in Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi