I use the line “These are my thoughts today; don’t hold me to them tomorrow” as part of my signature line. I know this is somewhat of a cop out but I have come to realize that right now I keep changing my mind about things and am less sure of what I think than I have been in the past. So the question comes to my mind, how can I be so sure that I am right this time that the church is not what it claims to be? I was once fairly confident in my belief that the church was God’s one true church and I had my many good reasons. Now obviously I feel I have better information than before and I see the picture more clearly now. However, I am certain that I do not have ALL of the information, nor do I think that I see the picture as clearly as it can be seen. I guess I have to make the best decisions I have with the information I have and then be willing to change if better information or a clearer picture becomes available.
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You said: "I guess I have to make the best decisions I have with the information I have and then be willing to change if better information or a clearer picture becomes available."
It also has to be a decision that you can live with the consequences of.
And, preferably, one that you can take with the attitude of not allowing yourself regret it if it turns out later that you did not make the "correct" or "best" decision.
Whenever I make a bad decision, I allow myself the consolation of having done the best that I could at the time, realising that hindsight works much better than foresight, and that if I had known then what I know now I would have made a "better" decision.
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