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Wed, Mar 29, 2006 06:43:51 AM


↔ changing values, my changing life ↔
posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 06:43:51 AM

 

i was sorely tempted to take a peek at what i wrote a year ago on this topic so i could copy the juicy bits and rework them into what sounded like a totally different bog. but then i thought about what the dang reading talked about in regards to getting back too much change. i would know whether anyone else went back and checked or not. of course i could dismiss anyone‘s by saying that i just guess that two years in a row i was in almost an identical space when i read the reading. but as my values change, it also seems my life changes too. what i found acceptable nine years ago, or five years ago or one year ago, or even yesterday, i do not find acceptable today. and i am not talking about the world around me! no i am talking about the world within. i am talking about making my behaviors match my values, not making my values match my behavior. i lived in the value matching mode for far to long and have probably forfeited the right to rationalize and justify my behaviors.
so what exactly HP‘s will for me today?? well for one. it is for me to decide to stay clean just one more day. probably it is to talk to my new client and get on track with assignments for him. definitely meet with a sponsee and discuss tradition two this afternoon. and more than likely for me to demonstrate love, concern and empathy for all those who happen to cross my path today!
thinking back over the past sixty days, i can see what my sponsor Carlos was nattering on and on about. since i was unwilling to wake-up and do the will of my HIGHER POWER, events were set in motion to force me to internalize HP‘s will and finally understand my OWN TRUE WILL. i am allowed to succeed, if i allow myself to. i am allowed to grow in all areas of my life, if i let go. and i can be more of a person than i ever was. all of this is possible when i finally realize resistance is futile and i will be assimilated into HP‘s will, by doing what i need to do to stay clean today!

∞ DT ∞

 

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↔ my true will ↔ 159 words ➥ Tuesday, March 29, 2005 by: donnot
α when my values change, my life changes, too. Ω 512 words ➥ Thursday, March 29, 2007 by: donnot
∞ what worked for me when i used frequently does not work long in recovery. ∞ 429 words ➥ Saturday, March 29, 2008 by: donnot
ω it is human nature to want something for nothing. i tend to think that, if no one knows … 408 words ➥ Sunday, March 29, 2009 by: donnot
∼ in the past, i took advantage of others and of the situation with little regard of who i was hurting ∼ 504 words ➥ Monday, March 29, 2010 by: donnot
⇑ the will of my HIGHER POWER for me consists of the very things i most value ⇑ 384 words ➥ Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by: donnot
— i am internalizing the will of the POWER that fuels my recovery — 258 words ➥ Thursday, March 29, 2012 by: donnot
⇒ if no one knows, one small deception will not make any difference ⇐ 700 words ➥ Friday, March 29, 2013 by: donnot
∴ in the past, i victimized others. ∴ 614 words ➥ Saturday, March 29, 2014 by: donnot
≡ as the will of the POWER that fuels my recovery ≡ 706 words ➥ Sunday, March 29, 2015 by: donnot
⦕ my own true will ⦖ 574 words ➥ Tuesday, March 29, 2016 by: donnot
❄ beginning to develop ❅ 783 words ➥ Wednesday, March 29, 2017 by: donnot
🤑 getting something 🤑 735 words ➥ Thursday, March 29, 2018 by: donnot
🎡 someone does know 🎢 458 words ➥ Friday, March 29, 2019 by: donnot
👹 if no one knows ... 👿 428 words ➥ Sunday, March 29, 2020 by: donnot
😕 true will  😕 459 words ➥ Monday, March 29, 2021 by: donnot
😇 living out 😉 387 words ➥ Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by: donnot
😨 hope combats 🙂 539 words ➥ Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by: donnot
😨 FEAR makes 🤯 484 words ➥ Friday, March 29, 2024 by: donnot
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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 1

1) If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would
be better for the people a hundredfold. If we could renounce our benevolence
and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial
and kindly. If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard
our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.