The thing I have not mentioned is that you are powerful and so is everyone else. The power God gives to each of us is the freedom to make decisions and to be responsible for our actions. What makes our decisions so powerful is that there is a rule in the universe that God tied to our lives: our decisions cannot and will not be changed by God or any of Its angels. This is called “free will” and is a necessary part of learning to make better decisions by being totally responsible for them.

If this rule were not in place, then our decisions would not mean very much if God or the angels could change what happened. Tough, huh? We have the power to destroy our lives by making bad decisions, or the power to create our life to be something we can be proud of, and have everyone else be proud of what we became. Greatness is not something that is tied to wealth, big houses, expensive cars, or the college or university you go to. Greatness is using your life to your greatest advantage by using the values we discussed in the last chapter.

In our greatness and in our powerfulness we should not hurt or destroy the greatness or capability of anyone else. When we live life using these values we are in every sense truly human and humane, becoming more capable of making good decisions.