All through our lives, we have to make decisions about our studies, jobs, shopping, eating, behavior. Some choices are clearly good or bad; other choices are less obvious. Some are tempting, luring us with promises of power, satisfaction, wealth, or just plain feeling good. Some choices are difficult, facing us with sadness, or requiring us to let go of something or someone we love.

When we choose to live as a beloved child of God, it is our best choice, a choice that will impact all our decisions. It doesn’t have anything to do with money, or appearance, or influence, or connections, because those are all things that divide us and force us to compare those who have (dollars, power, popularity, success) with those who have not.

When we choose God, the Maker of all, we don’t measure, compare, or compete. Choosing God, we choose instead to see how we are alike, and to celebrate what we have in common: the good name of the Creator, which is worth more than gold.

By Nikki Finkelstein-Blair from d365.org