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How many choices will you make today? How many of them will be good, how many bad? How many choices will be carefully considered, how many will be just an instinctive reaction? How in charge of ourselves and our choices are you? My first choice of the day happens when I waken and decide to pay a visit to the bathroom. However it's really not me but my bladder that's doing the choosing. Once I'm in there and satisfied the needs of the water works I choose to stay and complete all the personal hygiene requirements since I'm in there anyway. Thereafter I choose so many things - what I eat, read, watch, say, listen to .... I choose to be either polite or rude, helpful or unhelpful, generous or mean but most of those choices are not deliberately made and maybe that's a problem. If I examined every situation where even the smallest choice needed to be made I imagine my life could be more productive, more meaningful in some way. But do we have time to agonise over every little event? I don't. But maybe I ought to take the time to analyse more before choosing how to react in each situation that comes along. In one of the Psalms in the Old Testament the writer asks God to keep him from wilful sins and that struck me quite forcefully when I read it recently. Wilful sin. That says to me that he knew he was in the habit of choosing to do wrong even though he knew what the right thing might be. Now, patient reader, you'll have to choose to forgiven me here or not because I don't really know where I'm going with these thoughts so I'm going to choose to stop and go and do something else.