Choose!

I was checking my social sites and suddenly heard a conversation of a mother and her child. The child wants to join a marathon but her mom doesn't want her to go, i thought it was just a normal conversation until i heard her mom yelling saying different negative things just to limit her child. She was saying harsh things already to her child. My heart was broken hearing it because i just can't imagine how this will affect her child in the future. Imagine the confidence she lost. Maybe it is only a marathon for the mom but i believe it was everything for her child.I can't blame the mom.. not simply because it's not my concern but because i don't know what she have gone through in the past that made her that way.

We are all born innocent, we are just molded by different waves of people. there will always be legacies of the people before us, good or bad. We don't have a choice whether it will start from good or bad, but i believe that there will be once in our life that we will have a choice. A good legacy can be cut by a single mistake and a bad legacy can be change by a single good deed. A fruit that is ripe can be sweet but can also be sour. 

In order for us to have good fruits we should know the roots.

What influences you now? what books do you read? what friends do you have? what words do you say? who do you believe in?

Our influence makes us think, what we think makes us act and what we act makes us defined.

How do we want ourselves to be defined? Good or Bad?

I hope we would all want to be good and leave a legacy full of hope for the generations to come.

For the child i pray that one day she will choose not based on her past but based on what she wants to be. One day she would be reached out by someone who will encourage her, support her and be her friend.

For the mom i pray that she would realize what she said to her child and maybe read this post. (haha)

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control...."

Galatians 5:22-23

Jesus is the roots, these are the fruits

Abraham Lee