Sherry, thank so much for your input - you are right of course, to add in self-empowered and creative. I love this quote and it reflects what you are saying: “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” ~ Madeleine Albright

" every theory our minds come up with is purely perspective, a single way of stopping and analyzing the dynamic flow at a particular moment in time. One perspective is no more correct than another." I experience this so clearly ... the thing that really gives me trouble is the cultural expectation that we need to *choose* a particular perspective, to the exclusion of others.

One of the things that I find intriguing as a parent and a child is how to teach and learn to choose freely and wisely while being limited by what we know and don't know. The reality of being a human being is that we are limited, our choices are restricted and bounded by our merely being human. How do we be free in the center of our limitations?(I hope this makes sense) God learns to operate within this limitation, God chooses to learn in this way the experience seems to be something God enjoys and thrives on. God loves to learn, grow and develop. God loves the dance... How fun is it to experience something new, something better, something bigger, deeper? God hurts when a vessel that was created to do and be more does not or can not learn, expand, grow, achieve, evolve. This is the problem that God constantly creates solutions for. Lifetime after lifetime, age after age, choice after choice. freedom within limitations, the opportunity for God to experience more, God became human I love being human and not knowing, if what I know, is what is known. It is both liberating and limiting. Hi Julie