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Wed, Jul 13, 2005 05:20:49 AM


ω asking for help?? ω
posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 05:20:49 AM

 

but no one can understand. there are times in my recovery when just waking up and going on is feels to hard to do. last night i really felt like using for the first time in quite a while. i went to see an addict but did not share with him what was going on, for whatever silly reason my amazing magnifying mind came up with. this morning i am sitting here after reading the morning reading, praying and meditating and i still feel disconnected and empty. it is kind of strange that although i have this resentment against GOD and how i was created that i would still attempt to do what i have done since the dawn of my time in recovery.
the nature of my resentment, is that if i was created just a bit differently, my friend jim would not be suffering today. so i can see it is not my fault that i was not ‘good enough’ to save my friend -- it is GOD's fault and as a result i am angry. since i have been angry for over six months, i am sure it is a resentment and so i am stuck. how the hell can i turn my will and my life over to a being who constructed me just imperfect enough that i could not meet someone else's needs.
so now my crap is out, in a public forum, one that my friends may or may not read, so i can tell myself that i did ask for help and no one reached out.
anyhow i am sad and angry and a bit less confused about what is going on inside. i do know that i need a shoulder, a hug and some time with someone who may or may not understand, but at least is willing to listen.
∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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

He who in (Tao's) wars has skill
Assumes no martial port;
He who fights with most good will
To rage makes no resort.
He who vanquishes yet still
Keeps from his foes apart;
He whose hests men most fulfil
Yet humbly plies his art.

Thus we say, 'He ne'er contends,
And therein is his might.'
Thus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,
That they with him unite.'
Thus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,
No sage of old more bright.'