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*view from my bed

My alarm clock went off this morning at 5:15.

This is normal of course but today something different happened.

I rolled over and opened my eyes, searching for the "snooze" button.

My eyes saw a different word.

Today the alarm clock said "choose".

It did! I couldn't believe it either!

I blinked my eyes in disbelief a few times to adjust my vision; and then there it was, that faithful word "snooze" was back.

So I pushed the button and rolled back over for ten more minutes of heaven. Probably not the best choice I could have made?

When the alarm went off again I couldn't stop thinking about how odd that was and how clearly I saw the word "choose".

I have been thinking about choice all day today.

Every morning I choose to wake up and go to seminary (after snoozing a few times, of course). I choose to be a gospel teacher for teenagers. I choose it and I love it.

The teenagers choose to do the same thing. I am always so impressed with them for making that choice.

Our choices are everything, and thanks to agency we have the right to choose whatever we want.

I choose to be a member of my church and to keep high standards for myself because I know that this will bring me closer to purity and to God and happiness than any other lifestyle I could choose to have. I love that I don't have to deal with things like addiction or guilt or hate when I keep God's commandments. Those same commandments end up as more of a blessing in my life than anything. And as I get older it gets easier and easier to make good choices. Another blessing of having the gospel written on my heart.

Choices so far have taken me to a really great place. And that motivates me to keep making those choices, because I know that life will just keep getting better if I do.