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โˆž who do i trust? โˆž

Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 06:10:10 AM

an interesting question on many levels. although i trust the program and GOD, i still balk at trusting other people. i have gotten better with this over time, but when it comes down to it, i still hold back. my trust is still conditional, i extend only enough of it to any one person, so the weapons they can use against me are limited. this attitude comes from the protective shell i so carefully constructed and maintained over the course of my active addiction, after all, what they do not know will not hurt me. this attitude will kill me in recovery and i realize this. i want to trust my sponsor completely, he has never betrayed my trust and he saw me when i was barely six months clean and trying my wings at area service. he has never been anything but kind and loving since those first days and has been more than open with me about the parts of his life that relate to what i have been going through. i can continue the excuses for pages and pages of ramblings but after just a moment of contemplation, i see them for what they are, lies i tell myself or as our literature so succinctly puts it -- A RESERVATION -- .
so in the long run, if i want to continue to grow and become the person GOD has planned, i will have to work harder at allowing people see me in all my glory -- warts and all, and trust someone with all my stuff all the time, working towards making my trust unconditional.
a big task ,but the rewards will be worth it.
&infin 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

1) A master of the art of war has said, 'I do not dare to be the host
(to commence the war); I prefer to be the guest (to act on the defensive).
I do not dare to advance an inch; I prefer to retire a foot.' This
is called marshalling the ranks where there are no ranks; baring the
arms (to fight) where there are no arms to bare; grasping the weapon
where there is no weapon to grasp; advancing against the enemy where
there is no enemy.