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Thu, Jan 20, 2005 05:33:43 AM
∞ one promise ∞
posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 05:33:43 AM
many gifts.
this could be a gratitude list or a whining session, but instead i will just write what is on my mind today.
i get to choose to stay clean today.
i get to choose whether i grow spiritually or back slide into active addiction.
i get to choose to get up and face the day or hide and isolate.
for me that is the substance of this promise, everything else i get is just that, everything else.
so this morning i celebrate the fact that just for today i am free from active addiction
∞ DT ∞
this could be a gratitude list or a whining session, but instead i will just write what is on my mind today.
i get to choose to stay clean today.
i get to choose whether i grow spiritually or back slide into active addiction.
i get to choose to get up and face the day or hide and isolate.
for me that is the substance of this promise, everything else i get is just that, everything else.
so this morning i celebrate the fact that just for today i am free from active addiction
∞ 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.
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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 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.