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โ‰  my efforts at service make me highly visible to the fellowship โ‰ 

Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 11:42:31 AM

it is easy for me to become a **big fish in a little pond**. well this b ig fish has left the pond for the most part these days. after almost a decade in various forms of service at the service committee level, i have moved up the food chain to just a worker bee, a group servant and a member of the convention committee. i truly felt my life would not be complete at such a major paradigm shift in my service efforts, as it turns out, it is just as fulfilling of a life being part of the little fish as it was when i thought i was that big fish.
i could go on, however, today i am sitting here after a frustrating weekend, trying to get all the computers that needed to work by start of business this morning, up and running. it is tough, as an addict or even a human being to work and work and work and it looks like nothing is getting done!
YARGH!
what started out as a seemingly simple upgrade has turned into a monster machine swap and as a result, my serenity is not very high this morning. it sometimes sucks to be me. well not really, the events of the past 48 hours may make me think that, BUT i know that i had to do what i had to do. working within the constraints i was given.
anyhow, i better get back to paying attention to what needs to be done and let all of this go.
i can surrender. i can persevere. and best of all i can stay clean, just for today

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

2) Therefore (to guard against this), the sage keeps the left-hand
portion of the record of the engagement, and does not insist on the
(speedy) fulfilment of it by the other party. (So), he who has the
attributes (of the Tao) regards (only) the conditions of the engagement,
while he who has not those attributes regards only the conditions
favourable to himself.