Day 192
It is a gift to have choices about how to live. It’s still hard for me to fathom not having choices, to be caught in something so profoundly that I consistently “made choices” that were against my core values, were endangering my life and everything important to me, and again and again.
Of course I had the choice.
In every situation, there was a small and usually unnoticed moment of going this way or that. Sometimes — maybe most of the time — I made a good choice, but once the wrong decision was made to look at this or search for that, the only choice became how or when, not if. Now, every day, I have the opportunity to work on recovery or not. If I do the work, then ‘not today’ is almost effortless. If I skip the work... well, I don’t want to experiment with that choice. I choose to do the work, and I’m blessed with choices that contribute to life.
–JR
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