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Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 10:34:40 AM

in good standing? so i have to say, i have had better starts to my morning. instead of going on and on about what has gone wrong, i think i will leave it at that and move along. one of the consequences of my **bad** morning is that i am now on the phone waiting to speak to someone about an issue i am having with my work computer. it simply sucks, but i can live with it.
i can certainly say, that i am glad that there is only a single requirement for membership in the fellowship that has given a life that has these sort of problems. i cannot say for certain where i would be, if once upon a time i had to jump through all sorts of hoops to become a member. back in the day, even that felt like a bar too high for me to reach. i did not want to stop using, all i wanted was some respite form the circumstances that drove me to recovery. today the desire to use has been gone quite some time and i no longer consider it as part of my daily life. living clean has become a way of life and membership in the fellowship is a “given.”
as i am distracted by work stuff and “issues,” i think that i will just be okay and accept that my wait may be hours and hours to have my issues corrected. i will do what i can and when i get through the queue, allow myself the freedom to move into that part of my work day. acceptance and patience seem to be the spiritual principles that i need to exercise in the here and now.

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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 1

3) On occasions of festivity to be on the left hand is the prized
position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in
command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding
in chief has his on the right;--his place, that is, is assigned to
him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men
should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle
has his place (rightly) according to those rites.