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ฯ‰ asking for help?? ฯ‰

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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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

1) In a little state with a small population, I would so order it,
that, though there were individuals with the abilities of ten or a
hundred men, there should be no employment of them; I would make the
people, while looking on death as a grievous thing, yet not remove
elsewhere (to avoid it).