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โˆž trading in my misery โˆž

Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 08:15:18 AM

i only have to be miserable if i choose to be? what if my life really sucks and nothing is turning out as i expected? what can i possibly do to be less miserable?
well, according to this morning's reading i can trade my misery for recovery! if i choose to speak with another member, or work with my sponsor, or go to a meeting, or do that heinous assignment that my sponsor gave me, or work with a sponsee, or do service work or just about any other of the many spiritual tools that i have been given, my life may not look any better on the outside, but i will become more accepting of the current situation and hence a bit less more miserable.
most of the time when i find myself in misery, i have forgotten that GOD provides me with everything i need on a daily basis but i want more. this makes total sense to me, because i always want MORE and when i am in the disease of addiction the NEED FOR MORE is so overwhelming, i overlook what i have. taking any of the simple suggestions of the reading, flips the record over and i become grateful for what i have.
this program may or may not change the outside aspects of my LIFE but it certainly changes the inner part. so for me today, i choose recovery!
∞ DT ∞
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TIM M

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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) The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree,
and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. All things alike
go through their processes of activity, and (then) we see them return
(to their original state). When things (in the vegetable world) have
displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its
root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness;
and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled
their appointed end.