25 Days of Gratitude: Day 10

I am so grateful for my ability to make choices. Within the last couple of days, I've read the testimony of Elizabeth Smart, and she emphasized several times that Brian David Mitchell took away her ability to choose through threatening her death and that of her family. Reading about everything that she went through at the hands of another person has really made me so grateful that I can choose what to do with my life each day. I can choose to wake up and clean, or I can choose to stay in bed and sleep all day. I can choose to treat my children and those around me with respect and love, or I can choose to treat everyone with disdain and rudeness. Each day I make choices, and I do not have a "Lucifer-figure" in my life demanding I do what he/she wants me to do. I am so grateful that I have always had the ability to choose. Yes, Elizabeth Smart still had a choice ... to do what Mitchell wanted her to do, or to die (according to his threats). She chose to live. Granted, by doing so, she didn't get to make many other choices according her desires, but she ultimately chose her life and her family's lives. I am so grateful for my knowledge that we are here on this earth because we initially chose to follow our Heavenly Father's plan. We have always had the ability to choose, and I am thankful that this ability was never taken from us.

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Aubrey A said…

It breaks my heart any time I read anything about what Elizabeth Smart went through. How terrible would that be. Conform, or die, essentially. Isn't that really what Satan wanted all along? I am grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who doesn't force us into anything. It's nice knowing we have a choice, when it all comes down to it. Thanks for reminding me.

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