Massive Choices
With Massive Choices, Andrew Morgan seeks to guide readers - whether for their own benefit or to better counsel others - in making the three most monumental decisions they will confront.
One of the shortcomings and failings of our educational system, especially lately, is that it has moved away from teaching fundamental basic courses and classical education in favor of using the classroom as a tool to promote social agendas. Even before this turnabout within our school system, unless someone attended a program where they studied world history or the classics of Western civilization, few were exposed to the wisdom passed down through the ages.
Andrew Morgan ~ Massive Choices
Introduction
“Cheval” is a Frederick R. Smith Speakes guest author with the following published essays:
Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields? ~ October 5, 2021
Harnessing the Power of the Majority ~ November 18, 2021
The Real Divide ~ January 26, 2022
The Descent of Man ~ March 26, 2022
SADS: It Was Only a Matter of Time ~ June 22, 2022
Anything But the Vaccine ~ August 27, 2022
Since Cheval’s last guest post at Frederick R. Smith Speakes, hundreds of new subscribers have come aboard the “Speakes Train of Thought.” Perhaps more recent subscribers might want to check out the above essays. Coincidently, Cheval told me he has been off the radar because he has been writing a book. It was published on August 15, 2023. Thus, it is an honor and privilege to reveal the identity of Cheval (as he desired) and review his book, Massive Choices: The Three Most Important Decisions You Will Ever Make and Why They Matter.
Andrew Morgan brings a wealth of professional experience to his first book, Massive Choices. After serving 26 years on active duty in the Navy and retiring as Captain, Morgan held senior executive roles in the Department of Defense and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army. Drawing on his military service and decade of government work, Morgan shares personal stories and spiritual insights to help readers make the most critical life choices. Massive Choices distills what truly matters, both in this world and the next, as Morgan reflects on his journey of Christian transformation. Morgan resides in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife.
The Book
Massive Choices: The Three Most Important Decisions You Will Ever Make and Why They Matter is a thought-provoking book. It examines the three most critical decisions we make in life and why they profoundly impact our existence. It explores accepting God, choosing a life partner, and selecting a career path—decisions that shape our personal growth, relationships, and well-being.
This book is for those seeking wisdom and clarity facing major crossroads or transitions. Whether you are a young adult embarking on your life’s journey or an older adult looking to find new meaning and purpose, Massive Choices will empower you to align your priorities with God’s plan.
Through engaging real-life stories, Morgan illustrates how these three intertwined choices carry long-term consequences. Readers will gain insight into avoiding life’s biggest mistakes and have the confidence to make or correct monumental decisions.
Ultimately, this book will help anyone struggling to bring order and meaning to their life. Choosing wisely allows you to find fulfillment, direction, and a deeper connection with the Divine. Massive Choices is a guide to making your most crucial life decisions count. While reading this engaging book, I highlighted many paragraphs that are particularly inspirational or informative to me. Here are just a few of the more stirring passages:
We can Google information quickly placing instant knowledge at our fingertips, but that capability has made us no more intelligent, certainly, no wiser. Access to knowledge isn’t the same thing as being knowledgeable. Access to knowledge doesn’t make us wise. Given the proliferation of inaccurate and false information on the internet, on social media, and in the news, people consequently lack the means of discernment and tend to believe whatever they read or hear. (p41)
There’s a tendency in our day and age to accept the possibility that there are multiple truths or that truth is relative to the beholder. It’s a common misconception in today’s society that truth is a relative thing. Whatever that person believes is the truth and is supposed to be believed by everyone else because it’s their truth. But that’s not the way truth works. (p. 44)
Wisdom enables you to determine which narratives aren’t based on facts or history and may be falsely represented. You begin to see through untruths and outright lies, which is why so many of today’s societal and political narratives are unsustainable. In today’s world, we can’t help but see many fallacies in logic. Across our society, we see people being attacked for what they believe instead of their idea or argument being scrutinized or debated. (p. 45)
Our worldview today, our laws, the basis of our nation under the Declaration of Independence, and the way our society operates based on the Constitution are steeped clearly on biblical principles. Many of our foundational laws and much of our way of life are results of Judeo-Christian underpinnings that are impossible to ignore unless people are taught not to see this truth and to ignore what was obvious to prior generations.
(p. 50)1. . . the assumption by men of God’s will has been used and twisted to extremes with fanatical logic, which has led to horrific acts supposedly in God’s name, such as the slaughter of innocents during 911. But in a clear case of God’s will, the Great Flood, which may appear to have been cruel and extremely harsh, was God’s plan and doing, essentially a do-over because man had become so evil and didn’t resemble what God had wanted for his creation. He deemed it necessary to start all over again. (p. 54)
. . . nonbelievers are often heard to say that there is and should be a separation of church and state. Nowhere is this notion inscribed in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, or other documents, but it’s put forth regularly as an argument as if it were etched somewhere in stone. The notion was originally based on a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a colleague expressing his belief that the church and state shouldn’t be significantly intertwined, meaning that the government shouldn’t run as a theocracy as is the case, for example, in Islamic Iran. (p. 56)2
But many scientists rule out any possibility of divine intervention and supernatural intent. Evolution alone can’t account for creation other than stating that the right compounds and the right proteins by some infinitesimal chance came together in a primordial soup and that some spark united these proteins in such a way that all the species that ever walked the earth came about, including a man with a soul. (p. 58)
. . . no scientist has ever been able to explain the creation of the original genome that created our species other than to say that life just randomly came about over millions and millions of years by a nondirected process called chance, or that intelligent beings may have intervened on our planet to give rise to humanity. Just as words on a page are the intention of the author, so too the first genome must have been the intentional design of an author. Just as a book is a distinct and very thoughtful expression and sequencing of letters, words, and sentences, so too is the stuff of life. It couldn’t have evolved to such specificity through randomness. Again, nonbelievers can’t adequately explain our creation or how genetic coding came about with extraordinary precision. (pp. 58-59)
Material possessions delude people into thinking that they’ll provide security and freedom from anxiety, but these things are often the source of their anxiety and cause even more of a burden. People who tend to value material possessions too much have the propensity to credit themselves with having the means to acquire such possessions or have come to rely on themselves as the source of their self-perceived good fortune that they fail to recognize that God is responsible for all abundance. Therefore, it becomes a common misconception that we rely solely on ourselves and not on God, the opposite of what we should be doing. (pp. 68-69)
Upbringing is important because one’s upbringing tends to shape and mold who you are later in life. It also sets an example for how most of us believe a committed relationship should be, or how it shouldn’t be, depending on our experiences. It’s vitally important to have shared values, and those values can be many and have a deeper meaning than we originally believe. A difference in values may not be entirely a deal breaker, but it certainly doesn’t help when values are misaligned. It’s very helpful if a couple shares similar political and religious views and outlooks on life and life events, including fitness and health in general. All too often, these things are overlooked and swept under the rug, only to emerge later to become sources of division. (p. 94)
The best route for me to serve God was to write to His glory as a way to reach some of His children who are perhaps starved to find Him. If it helps to influence one or more souls to change course, do an about-face, and come to the Lord by repenting and accepting both God and Jesus Christ, then that, in itself, represents success. Because that’s what we’re called to do while in this earthly existence. It should be everyone’s goal to help as many people as possible to seek eternity with their God and Creator. (p. 180)
Fred’s Reflection
The underlying issue prompting the book Massive Choices can perhaps be best summarized as the Cultural Marxism dogma. That ideology or worldview supports ideas that challenge traditional values and cultures. This involves connecting people worldwide under the rubricks of a New World Order. It also appears as gender identity and challenges art, music, and architecture rules. This effort aims to deconstruct remnants of tradition under the banner of “progress.” The goal is to create a general humanity without connections to country, or gender. That is called “identity politics.” Advocates push for universal uniformity in the name of being “unique.” As a result, society becomes very divided. People can change their identities whenever they want. The collectivist cauldron and its globalist supporters are dismantling existing structures (e.g., the family structure). They want to create a reconstructed future, which erodes genuine organic identity. This erosion happens because they desire permanence.
The collectivists and their puppet master elite leaders have similar goals in dismantling family and gender. They want these concepts to change and help the collectivist-inspired globalist society. In this vision, everyone is free except when it goes against collectivist beliefs. The freedom we have relies on an “educated” society that can access information. But this information has to align with the prevailing ideology.
The book Massive Choices is an effective antidote to Cultural Marxism. But we know the smoke spewing from this cauldron permeates virtually every element of society. We can expect venom projected at us for desiring a return to tradition. That makes it challenging to resist the godless-centered ideology unfolding today. But, we must plant the good seeds, as described by Andrew Morgan, so that future generations can produce wholesome fruit.
Godspeed Andrew Morgan and all the cogent-minded “Speakes” readers. 📕
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