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Sun, Sep 24, 2006 09:22:38 AM
α the loving GOD i come to believe in is infinite, and the power and love i find in my belief Ω
posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 09:22:38 AM
is shared by nearly every recovering addict around the world.
so here i sit staring at a mostly blank field, wondering what deep, witty and incise comments i can make on the state of my spiritual landscape after the i copied and pasted from the morning meditation, and quite honestly i am at a loss. for many reasons my mind is going in so many different directions it is hard for me to pin one train of thought down.... however i think i will try!
going back to the reading and my understanding of GOD as it has grown, i do not think that my problems are insignificant to ask GOD to help with today, the catch there is that i do not pray for specific things and events. i have not spent all this time working this program to come to understanding of GOD as Santa Claus! yes there are a few things in my personal life that i would love to be repaired, and if i was less healthy than i am, i would be all over them fixing, adjusting, promising and working things out. or i could get down on my knees and pray for GOD to fix them for me, i have found that doing that sometimes does not bring the results i desired or anticipated. but that is a topic for another day. what i find myself doing is praying for knowledge and the power to act on that knowledge. what i usually see happening is that the things i desire most to work out, do exactly that work out, in their own time, with the results much better than i could have manipulated out of the circumstances. expressing my FAITH by letting go is something new and different, and although i have heard this concept spoken about since the day i first was exposed to a program of recovery, it has taken me until right this moment to see that is how my belief has been developing since the day i decided to become an addict in recovery. does it make things any easier? on some levels, yes of course it does, but based on how i thought life, the universe and everything was set-up, it still feels like an alien concept to me. and that brings me back to the beginning -- the loving GOD -- and perhaps the end, after all solving the problems ion my life right now is beyond my capacity, time to let go and see what answers i get!
so here i sit staring at a mostly blank field, wondering what deep, witty and incise comments i can make on the state of my spiritual landscape after the i copied and pasted from the morning meditation, and quite honestly i am at a loss. for many reasons my mind is going in so many different directions it is hard for me to pin one train of thought down.... however i think i will try!
going back to the reading and my understanding of GOD as it has grown, i do not think that my problems are insignificant to ask GOD to help with today, the catch there is that i do not pray for specific things and events. i have not spent all this time working this program to come to understanding of GOD as Santa Claus! yes there are a few things in my personal life that i would love to be repaired, and if i was less healthy than i am, i would be all over them fixing, adjusting, promising and working things out. or i could get down on my knees and pray for GOD to fix them for me, i have found that doing that sometimes does not bring the results i desired or anticipated. but that is a topic for another day. what i find myself doing is praying for knowledge and the power to act on that knowledge. what i usually see happening is that the things i desire most to work out, do exactly that work out, in their own time, with the results much better than i could have manipulated out of the circumstances. expressing my FAITH by letting go is something new and different, and although i have heard this concept spoken about since the day i first was exposed to a program of recovery, it has taken me until right this moment to see that is how my belief has been developing since the day i decided to become an addict in recovery. does it make things any easier? on some levels, yes of course it does, but based on how i thought life, the universe and everything was set-up, it still feels like an alien concept to me. and that brings me back to the beginning -- the loving GOD -- and perhaps the end, after all solving the problems ion my life right now is beyond my capacity, time to let go and see what answers i get!
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
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.
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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) Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far
from his baggage waggons. Although he may have brilliant prospects
to look at, he quietly remains (in his proper place), indifferent
to them. How should the lord of a myriad chariots carry himself lightly
before the kingdom? If he do act lightly, he has lost his root (of
gravity); if he proceed to active movement, he will lose his throne.