At What Cost?

What is it going to cost me?  It is a question we ask ourselves on a daily basis. 

I propose that maybe there is a different question that we should ask ourselves.  What will my decision cost others? 

I am convinced that when I make a decision to satisfy my own fleshly desires and that action causes needless pain to others, it will never bring me happiness.  I may experience a false, worldly high for a moment in my life.  However, I have no doubt that in the end, if that high came at the expense of others, I will descend to depths that far exceed the momentary high I experienced.

My good friend and fellow math teacher has this to say:  There are few things I know with more surety than this: Make only your own happiness the center of your life, sacrifice all in order to attain it, and it will evade your every grasp.

I don't know a lot of things.  I am learning and growing every day.  One thing I know.  You will not find happiness when you seek it at the cost of devastation to others.  Let me go further and say that when  the cost is emotional harm to children, I fear we are crossing a very dangerous line.

This blog is not written in reference to my own personal life.  I am just sick and tired of watching people make decisions that bring nothing but devastation and destruction into the lives of others.

Galatians 6:7 (GOD’S WORD Translation)
Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest.

And in the words of Forest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."