Living Life is a Proactive Choice

Choose life: Life is to be held sacred, as it is a gift from God.

Living life is a pro-active choice for each one of us to make. We can chose to live or not to live, at least to some extent.

Natural tragedies occur continually, around the world. Millions of people's lives are affected by events like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and fires. Many times, lives are snuffed out instantly.

Every day, there are other people in various parts of our world, who attempt to survive encounters with tragedies. They try to live life fully, in spite of everything that has happened to them and their families.

This category of survivors continues to seek the highest possible quality of life, no matter what has happened in the past, is happening in the present or at times, whatever their circumstances may be in the future, in any particular time or place. They also seek to help others, by teaching them to regard life as sacred and to live life, as fully as possible.

This part of the world's population has made the pro-active choice of living life and living life fully.

Why do so many make this choice, in spite of the odds against survival in tragic scenarios?

It is because individually and collectively, these people recognize the sacredness and the value of human life. They see not only the value of their own lives, but also the value of the lives of other human beings. Someone, somewhere, has taught them that life is sacred. They have learned that life can still be lived fully.

There appears to be a second segment of the population. These people do not appear to care about life. Living or allowing others to live, seems to mean nothing to them. They do not know the significance of the sacredness of life, the value of human life or what it means to be living life, in its fullness.

These people do not hold their lives, or the lives of others as sacred. Nor do they seek to achieve any reasonable quality of life, either for themselves or for others. If they have never known anything about living life fully, is it because they have not been taught the sacredness of life or how to live life fully?

This group may unintentionally do things that are life threatening to themselves and to others.

A third segment of the population, seeks to kill and destroy human beings. Obviously, they have made a pro-active choice for death, by deciding not to live. They do not allow others to live either.

Think about this for a moment and decide where you stand personally, with regard to the sacredness of life.

Consider the merit of living life fully. Then, ask yourself these questions:

Do you believe in the sacredness of life, your own life and that of others?

Do you know what it means to live life, in its fullness?

Are you making a pro-active choice for life or for death?

Are you teaching others to make a pro-active choice for life, instead of death, as well?

If not, why not?