Article December 22, 1997 Issue

Blessing or cursing: our choice

Ruth McCleary Truscott

"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live" (Deut. 30:19). I had studied this Bible verse before, but one day when I was reading it, these particular words stood out to me: "that both thou and thy seed may live."

My choice is important, I realized! Not just for myself, but for my family, and that includes the family of man. I recognized the importance of carefully choosing what I accepted into my thought. In choosing Life, as this verse commanded, I saw that I was accepting the possibility of all things becoming new—I was accepting the possibility of transformation, regeneration.

Several weeks later, my daughter, who lives in the midwestern United States, called and asked me to pray for her sister who was hysterical because of intense flooding going on there. There had been seventeen inches of rain in twenty-four hours; she couldn't look out and see grass anywhere. Her sister, she said, already had water coming up through the floors from the basement. For my daughter to travel the fourteen miles to her sister's house to try to rescue her and her husband looked impractical, for many roads were already closed. Railroad tracks were washed out. The whole situation looked bleak.

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