Phone Brigade Defeats Suds

I have been blessed with a mostly good week. I have really taken to heart the idea of avoiding "SUDs" - seemingly unimportant decisions. Like the decision to get out my laptop at home and check e-mail when no one else is home. Or the decision to follow a link from the Sports Illustrated website to view swimsuit pictures. I tend to rationalize these choices as small ones - seemingly unimportant decisions - SUDs.

I am trying to be more vigilant in treating every decision as an important decision. Every choice - no matter how small - is a potential opportunity to choose for or against Christ and for or against sobriety. Every choice matters. When I recognize this truth, it makes it easier to make the right choices.

I am grateful for this powerful insight.

I am also grateful for you - the phone brigade. You have all helped me to be more accountable this week. Yesterday I was on the precipice of yielding to the SUDs when I got a phone call at 4:00 (thank you, Rod). I was at the weakest point of my day and rationalizing about just looking at one or two sites when my phone rang. That phone call got me through the end of my work day.

Thanks, Phone Brigade!!