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โ†” making amends is simple. i approach the person i have harmed and say,**i was wrong.** โ†”

Posted: Sun, May 18, 2008 10:06:03 AM

to make effective amends, i have to keep it simple: i admit my part, and leave it at that. so i would love to wax on and on about how i make amends and what a wonderful gift the process of being able to make amends is. that would be nice, but it is not what is on my mind this morning, no what is on my mind is how i can avoid having to make amends period.
well, that could be simple, just avoid the people i have harmed. well what i am thinking about is allowing a HIGHER POWER to work in my life, so that those parts and pieces of my whole person, that cause damage are removed or morphed into something that no longer need to hurt others. so the goal for me today, is to cause no harm, by allowing my HIGHER POWER to remove my shortcomings, because it is very rarely an accident that i harm someone else. it may not necessarily be premeditated, i do take advantage of situations as they arise that allows me to do some harm and that harm is intentional and calculated. so anyhow, i am going down to service with a prayer on my heart and trying to let HP does its thing, so i can get through this without damaging anyone else or even myself. i will see what happens when i let go!

∞ 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

2) Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--

'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'