God’s Dictionary: Cost

By on March 16, 2009 in Balance, Work & Life

Cost

 

con- = together

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stare = to stand

 

            A wise friend assures me that everything either costs life or contributes to life. It makes sense to me. We live in a polarized reality on earth. Cost and contribution are two ways to look at the activity of living.

 

          There is a cost to life. That cost is the choices we make. If we choose one thing, we do not choose another. Interestingly, the etymology of the verb cost comes from Latin roots meaning to stand together. 

 

          And isn’t that what paying the cost means? We stand with our choices, we pay the price those choices mandate. If I choose Rocky Road and Mint Chip, I’m not having Jamoca Almond Fudge and Peppermint Swirl, right?

 

          A lot of us are afraid to make choices, but not choosing is also a choice of a sort. Writer Madeleine L’Engle calls this “the terrible gift of free will.” I’d rather stand with what I choose, pay the cost, learn whatever I need to learn, and choose again. Ask: How can I become fearless in my choosing today?

 

Infinition:

 

          I know there’s a cost to my choices. Part of it is to stand with whatever I choose and pay the cost of having it. I do so willingly because I know I can always choose again—and again.

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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood. 
 
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For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.

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