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Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2022 08:19:25 AM

as it may seem to to rely on my peers, my friends or my sponsor to provide for me needs, i know that is a trap to avoid at all costs. across my recovery journey i have witnessed the results of what happens to my peers when they place their FAITH in people, rather than the fellowship or a HIGHER POWER. the lucky ones survived with their recovery intact, the others? well i still wonder how they are doing. i know that is i choose to, i can find fatal flaws in every single human being and no matter good their intentions may be, in the long run, relying on them for the source of the power i need to stay clean today, is setting myself and them up for a major fail. that does not mean i let go of those i do have in my recovery, even if the nature of our relationship changes over time.

Mike C
Twenty years (XX) clean!
Congrats my friend.


one of the things that suck in my life today, is no paid time off. everyone i work with is on is three day weekend, and i could take the day off, but then i would have to work ten hour days the rest of the week or accept a paycheck that is one day short of what i have come to rely upon. my choice? put in some hours and not whine about it, too much. 🤣 after sleeping in an extra hour this morning, i have yet to get motivated to do much of anything. what i see in the world around me, is the result of not doing what i need to do for my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. no matter how much FAITH i have in the program of recovery or the POWER that fuels my recovery, if i choose to allow myself to slide into doing nothing to better myself, i may never come back. not that i am in any sort of danger, but i do need to remind myself that inertia is real and i am the object that requires acting upon to keep moving in a direction that is acceptable to me, just for today.

∞ 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 1

1) There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence
before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone,
and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger (of
being exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.