The Gift

I'm going to give you a gift. You may go back in time and change one instant, one moment. Think carefully. What will it be?

Will you correct that one moment when you made the biggest mistake of your life? Would you want to undo those words spoken in haste? Will you bring back the person you love? Will you want to undo everything else that has happened since then?

Or, will you instead think of the greater good? Will you want to undo the crucifixion of Christ, or stop 9/11? If you had the power to change one thing, what would it be?

It's painful to realize.  Not only do you not have the power to change anything, but you would regret any decision to change one thing at the expense of another.

But there is a secret:

Each moment in time is flawed and imperfect. We must choose what to make of each moment and each decision sets the direction for the future of all time.

It takes but one decision to break out of the loop of time to change the direction out of the circle of infinity. This one decision undoes every moment.

It is the choice for certainty over uncertainty, for absolute truth over relativity.

In the circle of infinity, we are all doing time.

Each instance you live in the circle repeats until you break the pattern.

You will come this way again.  You will face the same decision, and make the same choices. But you have the gift, you have the right to choose again.  This is a mystery that few can see.  Time may seem to relentlessly move forward, but each step forward rewrites the past.