Whenever the notion/issue of Choice comes up. Only one thing comes to mind for me.
"God is either everything or He is nothing. God either Is or He isn't"
I did not make a choice to 'not drink' yesterday - and last night I went to go check out a fellows Grateful Dead tribute band, and they played in a bar where most people were probably drinking.
I felt comfortable, there was no inner struggle to choose to tell the waitier I wanted a diet coke (my friend had a martini) - I enjoyed the show A LOT (they were really really good), went home, meditated, prayed and went to sleep.
I have not made a choice today to not drink - in fact...it has been many days in a row where the thought of "will I drink today or not" has been a conscious decision. The thought of having a drink has not come up.
I was a daily heavy alcoholic drinker.
Miracles cannot be explained with words - only by a life lived which is not based on the will of that alcoholic mind (which stays with me, Just doesn't run the show anymore).
Thanks Rob.