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Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 09:33:51 AM

to a newcomer i am trying to help. although i wonder, on days like these, do they really want what i am giving? so as the shorter days continue to affect m,e, i am getting to a place where this feels like my new normal. i want to break free from the the ennui and darkness that i am facing, and yet i know intellectuality that in less than a month, this will be all over. spiritually i am coming to that same place, however emotionally, well that feels like a whole different thang. needless to say, but i will say it anyhow, with the oppression of the season upon me, what do i have to offer anyone else. i do have a FNG that recently asked me to sponsor him, and have yet to scare him off. i do have men i have been sponsoring for a while, who still keep coming back. and when i share, no one gets up to go to the bathroom or have a smoke, so i am moire than likely being hypercritical about what i am sharing and to whom.
as this day goes by, i have a boatload of stuff to accomplish and it may just end up that i have to skip my service commitment to get it done today. what i will not skip[ is the meeting i have scheduled with my newest sponsee, as he probably has writing to go over, based on my experience with him to date. even though i do not want to, i am willing to do whatever commitments i have made today, at least as far as what others are expecting. what i am expecting of myself is to fly through all of what i have on my plate and accomplish everything, flawlessly and with a style that leaves me some time to watch some football today as well.
what will happen? well if i do not wrap this up now, i will be out of time when 6:15 rolls around and i have to head on over to Brighton, so as grateful for what was so freely given to me, i will do my best to return to the fellowship at large, by serving those who have a greater need. 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) What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be
as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which
kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are
increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being
increased.