This might sound kind of silly, but you really do need to know where you are. Not just your physical location or geographical coordinates on the surface of the Earth, but where you are in your growth, knowledge, and maturity. Many people struggle with this fact that they don’t know exactly where they are and even worse they don’t seem to care. Before you can make a journey, you need to know your starting point. Without a starting point, you can not possibly plot a course that will lead anywhere in particular. You can blindly pick a point on a map and make it a destination, but you cannot pick a point and call it your starting point. Why? Because you are not there, and you won’t be able to get there until you know where you are right now.

Where you are right no may very well be a nice place and you may not wish to venture off just yet, or where you currently are may be a terrible place to be and you can’t wait to shake the dust off of your boots as hit the trail. Our current location was not determined by luck or chance, we made choices, and these choices led us to this place whether we want to accept that truth or not. We made choices, and those choices are why we are here. There is no sense in wishing you would have made a different choice because that is not possible, it is water under the bridge and nothing within your power can change it. I can tell you that had you made only one slight change in your past choices, the world to day would be quite different.

Take the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. The main character George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, had the opportunity to see first hand just how different life would be had one thing been different, had he never been born. As Clarence the angle said,” Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves and awful hole, doesn’t he?” Now that is a scene from a movie and it was well scripted and acted out by a wonderful cast, but nonetheless, choices we make will have a definite impact on our lives in one way or another, positive, or negative.