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GIVING CHOICE

"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."
-- David O. McKay

I want to choose the details of my life. Fortunately, I've come to appreciate how important it is to give others the freedom to choose their own paths.

None of us wants our choice robbed from us. I can't know what's best for anyone but me. So why give unsolicited advice to others and expect them to follow it?

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance."
-- Samuel Butler

"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that may cost and wherever it may lead."
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From Higher Awareness - used with permission

So many times we don't make healthy choices and our humanness comes out because we have not made contact to our Higher Power or applied our program to our life. We have left it in the rooms of recovery and forgot to take it with us into today.

We can share our experience, strength and hope, that doesn't mean people have to follow it, but hopefully they will find a little bit of it that is applicable to them. The Big Book says, "I can't keep my sobriety unless I give it away. What others do with it is none of my business.