Mark it down in permanent ink: God is always at work.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

But there are some things you can't do even if you desire them. There are some choices you can't take back. Words said that can't be unsaid

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

You once said a man's life is a series of choices. Small decisions made every day that don't seem to matter. That nobody notices but you, if you even notice. Over time, those decisions are like raindrops, falling and filling the stream of a life. You believed the big choices were made in the small ones. If I had chosen differently in a thousand ways, maybe I wouldn't be here.

You cannot plan for love. You cannot choose against it once it has come.

There had been a connection long ago, but that had been severed. Something in me wanted to hold on, to roll back the clock and never let him go, but I had made my choice, as he had, and we had to live with our choices.

You would enable him to make good choices. Help him turn to You. Don't let the enemy win a victory in his heart. Lord, do whatever You need to do in order to bring him to his senses." There were no guarantees in prayer.

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.

Now, in some cosmic act of God or coincidence, the girl had returned to me. Who was I kidding? There is no coincidence. There is punishment, retribution. Or perhaps love and mercy and grace. Which was it?

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.