RESPONDING

Definition of Respond:
do something as a reaction to someone or something.

Synonyms of Respond: 
answer, reply to, acknowledge, greet, counter, reply, etc

These notes are from recovery in AA and/or related 12 step programs. Readers are encouraged to click external links for more detail. We hope you find them helpful.

Love in fellowship.

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond. The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control.

We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These are givens. We do not select them.

But we can choose how we will react to them, and in that choice lies our freedom and our responsibility. Our responsibility is to do the best we can with what we have where we are. –Inner Harvest/Elisabeth L. | More…