progress report

[2eclipse]

Got to page 15 tonight (roughly 3800 words).
Which means I am roughly 1/3 of the way there.
I am stuck at the part where we have a choice between God controlling our lives or sin controlling our lives and free will being a very real thing, but more about choosing what master we serve rather than every choice being completely our own and influenced by nobody.
every action we take is potentially a habit. we get into a habit of doing what is good for ourselves and others or we get into a habit of doing what hurts ourselves and others.
no actions are uninfluenced. we just choose who influences us.

i'm going to bed now.

Comments

[kfringe.livejournal.com]

If it makes any difference, I can be influenced to commit virtuous deeds by a briefcase full of non-sequentially numbered hundred dollar bills.

[sunmother.livejournal.com]

What I get into with this question is the issue of what are the unconscious influences on the choices we make? For example the cultural values we have unconsciously absorbed and which have absorbed us. Or the influence of early brain development on who we allow to get close enough to us to have an impact on our choices...(or how close we allow them) or the physiological impact of sensory imput on our choices (e.g. light, darkness, color, odor etc.) How do these sensory factors even influence the impact of worship on us? What is the role of the Holy Spirit in how we are open to the experience of grace that can guide our choices...either enhanced by the above factors or despite them.