September 28

Boy! We Americans talk a lot about freedom. But we addicts/alcoholics don’t know the first thing about it. We run around declaring freedom from this and that, and the freedom to go wherever we choose, freedom of speech, etc. But are we even remotely free if we are living under the thumb of alcohol and drugs? Are we truly free to make our own decisions? Not if those decisions are divided by alcohol and drugs; they're not. Freedom starts with the individual, and there can be no true freedom unless that person is free in their own mind. When you depend on outside circumstances for your internal condition, you are at the mercy of those things and cannot be truly free.

Reflections

Are you free today? How free do you want to be?

Daily Challenge

What is one thing you depend on that you should give up today?