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The Rose and the Thistle

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Laura Frantz

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“As your choices are shaped by what we believe is real and true, right and wrong, good and beautiful, in every action that we take, we are doing one of the two things: we are either helping to create a hell on earth or helping to bring a foretaste of heaven. We are either contributing to the broken condition of the world or participating with God in redeeming and transforming the world to reflect His righteousness. In other words, we are either advancing the rule of Satan or establishing the reign of God.”

“But when we retrace the addict's steps, it is clear that the trajectory leading to compulsive use was marked by scores of small, deliberate choices, made many times a day; whom to spend time with, which neighborhoods to visit, whether to allow himself to become bored. With each decision he made himself more vulnerable to continued use. These small decisions, then, are critical to becoming an addict - but the good news is that they are also critical to recovery. Which is why recovery programs universally stress the importance of learning to make safer choices, called 'relapse prevention' therapy.”

“It is possible I might regret being Childfree, but it is also possible that I might regret not being an astronaut (and neither is a choice for me).”