Choose Your Way

[Ann]

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest.

You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.


Look all around you and realize that everything you see is what you have chosen to see. Every thought you think is what you have chosen to think.

Day after day, by your words, your actions, and your thoughts, you have chosen your own path. And that path has brought you to precisely where you are.


Now it is time to choose again. Remember that with each and every choice you make, you determine the details of how your life will proceed.


It is a serious responsibility as well as a wonderful, enormous opportunity. For again and again, you can choose your way toward the life you truly wish to live.


-- Ralph Marston

[Ann]

As a codependent, before recovery, I spent most of my life living as a "reaction" to those around me. If those I loved were happy, I was happy and if they were not, neither was I. I dedicated my life to serving theirs.

As I began my recovery I had to get to know that stranger called "me". I had no idea who she was or what she wanted from life. I had never entertained my own dreams, just helped others attain theirs.

I remember what a joy it was, what a relief, to discover that I had "choices". Discovering that I could be or do or think or dream anything I wanted and I felt like a child at Christmas not knowing which gift to unwrap first.

It is a serious responsibility as well as a wonderful, enormous opportunity. For again and again, you can choose your way toward the life you truly wish to live.

Amen, twice over.

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