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Thu, Dec 2, 2004 06:54:51 AM
∞ priorities ∞
posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 06:54:51 AM
∞ i have an ex-sponsee who once asked me if he put GOD in front of recovery would he lose GOD. i had to think about this for a moment and then answered that GOD was part of my recovery and if i put recovery first then GOD was there too!
the whole point of this digression is that i often believe that certain things and activities need to come before what i need to do on a daily basis to stay clean. i NEED to sleep in those extra 15 minutes, so i do not have time to meditate, i am SO TIRED i do not have time to write my nightly inventory before falling asleep, i NEED to play a computer game for an extra hour so i cannot attend a meeting, i have to go shopping so i cannot call my sponsor.
all of these silly activities that i perceive as NEEDS are the start down the slippery slope of relapse from which i may never return. i know this sounds extreme, but i have seen it happen time and time again with both newcomers and oldtimers and i do not want it to happen to me.
so for me, for today, i will make RECOVERY my first and foremost priority and let everything else fall into place from there.
-- DT --
the whole point of this digression is that i often believe that certain things and activities need to come before what i need to do on a daily basis to stay clean. i NEED to sleep in those extra 15 minutes, so i do not have time to meditate, i am SO TIRED i do not have time to write my nightly inventory before falling asleep, i NEED to play a computer game for an extra hour so i cannot attend a meeting, i have to go shopping so i cannot call my sponsor.
all of these silly activities that i perceive as NEEDS are the start down the slippery slope of relapse from which i may never return. i know this sounds extreme, but i have seen it happen time and time again with both newcomers and oldtimers and i do not want it to happen to me.
so for me, for today, i will make RECOVERY my first and foremost priority and let everything else fall into place from there.
-- DT --
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
Another Look!
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
1) Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly
carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have
heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of
the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at
it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the
Tao.