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Mon, Aug 31, 2020 06:33:24 AM
🌄 losing track 🌄
posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2020 06:33:24 AM
of what i have been given. this morning, i am rushing to get a whole lot done in the little time i have left. in twenty minutes i will be going away for two days of fourteeners and the fact that i can do that, is a gift i GOT as a result of getting clean, staying clean and learning to live a program of recovery. i GOT to spend some time with friends last night and i have more of a life than i think i deserve. i could stay there, but this morning i can see that day by day, i have earned all that i have and that i NEED to say that, yes i am grateful for all of this and be aware that all of it can be lost in a heartbeat, if i choose to use. i have no desire to use this morning and i am marching into this day knowing full well that the grace i have to live this life, is a direct result of those dark days that led me to the light of recovery.
∞ DT ∞
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These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
Another Look!
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
2) All things depend on it for their production, which it gives to
them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is accomplished,
it does not claim the name of having done it. It clothes all things
as with a garment, and makes no assumption of being their lord;--it
may be named in the smallest things. All things return (to their root
and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over
their doing so;--it may be named in the greatest things.