Choose Your Love

Every single day we make hundreds of choices. From the moment the alarm goes off, we have the choice to either get up and get going for the day or to press the snooze button and fall back asleep for that much needed five more minutes of rest.

Once we are awake, we choose what to eat for breakfast, what we are going to wear, how to do our hair, if we are going to run the yellow light because we are late for work and so on. I love that WE have the decision every day, to choose for ourselves.

Every choice we make, even the littlest decision on if we kiss our spouse goodbye when we leave for the day, determines how our lives unfold.

I use to teach little five years old on Sundays at church and one of our lessons was on making decisions in our lives. At the time, the biggest decisions in their little hearts were if they were going to obey their parents when they asked them to clean their room and if they were going to share their toys with their friends.

I asked them to think about the choices they would have to make as they got older. You could tell they were a little confused, and were thinking if they were ever going to really grow up?! Well… “we are going to have to choose where we go to college, ” one of the little girls said. “And we are going to have to choose what job we are going to have,” another classmate said. And then this little girl, probably the quietest in the class said, “we are going to have to choose who we marry! I can’t wait to get married!” That was when a little boy chimed in and looked at her and exclaimed, “That isn’t until we are like 100!” It seemed like that day would NEVER come to them! They wouldn’t ever have to make those types of decisions in their little minds.

As I left the class that day, I couldn’t hep but realize that I had already made ALL of those important decisions in my life… and I wasn’t even 100 yet!

I chose where to go to college, what job I have (and had) and who I married. My little five year olds were right! Those are some of the most important decisions we make in our lives. And now as adults, we have already made those decisions! NOW WHAT?! What do we do with our decisions?!

President Thomas S. Monson said, “Priceless advice comes from a small framed plaque I once saw in the home of an uncle and aunt. It read, “Choose your love; love your choice.” There is great wisdom in those few words.”

Now that we have made our choices, we must love them. We chose our love, so now we must love our choice.

The quote continues, “Choose a companion carefully and prayerfully; and when you are married, be fiercely loyal one to another…Commitment in marriage is absolutely essential.

Your wife is your equal. In marriage neither partner is superior nor inferior to the other. You walk side by side as a son and a daughter of God.”

I was talking to a friend the other day who was fighting with her husband a lot. They were going through a very hard time and she was ready to walk away.

After talking for a little while, she realized that she had chosen him years ago. That she had promised to love him. That they were a team. I shared the quote, “Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.”

I love this video on What Matters Most in our lives:

I hope we take President Monson’s advice and always remember to show our love to those that our most important to us and to always remember to chose your love, love your choice.

Danielle is the owner of Today's the Best Day. She strives to provide creative and uplifting content in order to enrich the parenting experience for women everywhere. Danielle hopes to help you and your family to make every day the best day!

February 16, 2014 by Danielle Davis | 3 Comments