Elianna and I visited Hannibal La-Grange University today. It’s a nice little drive across the Illinois and Mississippi rivers where everybody says that the gas is way cheaper. We left around 6:30 and were back around 5. The kids had their last cross country practice before their regional meet tomorrow. They were meeting at Dairy Queen for blizzards.

The president gave a speech and said where you go to college is number three on the list of most important decisions you’ll make in your life. I can see it being in maybe the top ten, but definitely not the top three. Elianna said he was trying to make a speech and having your college choice be number three makes the speech sound better.

The number one choice is the decision to follow Christ and the second one obviously is the choice of who you will spend your life with. I agreed with those ones, but then I was trying to think of what could be listed as top ten most influential decisions of your life? I couldn’t think of ten but one I thought of was the choice to heal from the past.

Like at some point in life you’re going to have to forgive past grievances, let go of hurts and the disappointments and ways you didn’t have the advantage, and choose to not let those things make you bitter. My aunt used to say that happiness is a choice. If that’s the case, then I would say that on the list would also be the choice to be happy.

What you spend your life doing, as in career/vocation, he listed as number four. He didn’t go beyond that. Josh came up with one about how you care for your body, which got me thinking about the habits we establish. I dropped the kids off at the house and drove down to main camp where the fall leaves are looking very beautiful right now.