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reaffirming my decision

Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 04:38:53 AM

just for today i believe surrender my will and my life to the care of my Higher Power.
i have moments of self-will and belief that somehow i have power and can do life without the help of anyone especially a loving caring Higher Power. overe and over again in the past couple of weeks i have been shown the true state of things. i have no power over the disrease of addiction and how it affects the people i care about. no matter how spiritual i think i am, nothing has changed in that respect, i am still powereless over an addict who still chooses to use. i am still powerless over my disease, and i am still powerless over what happens when.
as painful as that seems to me the alternative, having that power and not getting the results i wish, is even worse.
so just for today i accept my powerlessness and turn my will and life over to the care of a loving Higher Power.
-- 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 2

3) He who gets as his own all under heaven does so by giving himself
no trouble (with that end). If one take trouble (with that end), he
is not equal to getting as his own all under heaven.