I have been clean for:
I Stand With Ukraine

Welcome

Journal

Some memes

Feel Free to steal and repost these memes!

Surrender meme Work the steps meme

ฯ‰ asking for help?? ฯ‰

Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 05:20:49 AM

but no one can understand. there are times in my recovery when just waking up and going on is feels to hard to do. last night i really felt like using for the first time in quite a while. i went to see an addict but did not share with him what was going on, for whatever silly reason my amazing magnifying mind came up with. this morning i am sitting here after reading the morning reading, praying and meditating and i still feel disconnected and empty. it is kind of strange that although i have this resentment against GOD and how i was created that i would still attempt to do what i have done since the dawn of my time in recovery.
the nature of my resentment, is that if i was created just a bit differently, my friend jim would not be suffering today. so i can see it is not my fault that i was not ‘good enough’ to save my friend -- it is GOD's fault and as a result i am angry. since i have been angry for over six months, i am sure it is a resentment and so i am stuck. how the hell can i turn my will and my life over to a being who constructed me just imperfect enough that i could not meet someone else's needs.
so now my crap is out, in a public forum, one that my friends may or may not read, so i can tell myself that i did ask for help and no one reached out.
anyhow i am sad and angry and a bit less confused about what is going on inside. i do know that i need a shoulder, a hug and some time with someone who may or may not understand, but at least is willing to listen.
∞ DT ∞

Another Look

This day in older entries

๐ŸŒฌ the freedom ๐ŸŒซ
416 words ➥ Monday, July 13, 2026 by donnot
๐Ÿ’ช speaking to ๐Ÿ—ฉ
399 words ➥ Sunday, July 13, 2025 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜• in times of need, ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ
521 words ➥ Saturday, July 13, 2024 by donnot
๐Ÿค unity ๐Ÿค
508 words ➥ Thursday, July 13, 2023 by donnot
๐Ÿง— save my face ๐ŸงŸ
312 words ➥ Wednesday, July 13, 2022 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜ฅ twenty-three days ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
433 words ➥ Tuesday, July 13, 2021 by donnot
๐ŸŒซ being better ๐ŸŒซ
523 words ➥ Monday, July 13, 2020 by donnot
๐Ÿ‘ sometimes recovery ๐Ÿ‘
623 words ➥ Saturday, July 13, 2019 by donnot
๐Ÿ‹ keeping up appearances, ๐ŸŽฑ
640 words ➥ Friday, July 13, 2018 by donnot
๐ŸŽญ to save ๐ŸŽฉ
673 words ➥ Thursday, July 13, 2017 by donnot
๐Ÿ’ฃ i should be โœŒ
867 words ➥ Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by donnot
ยค humility in action ยค
425 words ➥ Monday, July 13, 2015 by donnot
ฦ’ i must be willing to lay bare my difficulties ฦ’
309 words ➥ Sunday, July 13, 2014 by donnot
if i need help, i will ask for it.
493 words ➥ Saturday, July 13, 2013 by donnot
ยก this program of recovery is not about keeping up appearances !
663 words ➥ Friday, July 13, 2012 by donnot
ยฆ when i am hurting, and it happens from time to time ยฆ
610 words ➥ Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by donnot
โ„œ sometimes recovery gets downright difficult โ„œ
511 words ➥ Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by donnot
ฮผ i cannot save my face and my ass at the same time ฮผ
365 words ➥ Monday, July 13, 2009 by donnot
โˆž the taste of humility is never bitter.โˆž
491 words ➥ Sunday, July 13, 2008 by donnot
โˆž whether i have thirty days or thirty years clean, โˆž
506 words ➥ Thursday, July 13, 2006 by donnot
asking for help
262 words ➥ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 by donnot

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

2) Its upper part is not bright, and its lower part is not obscure.
Ceaseless in its action, it yet cannot be named, and then it again
returns and becomes nothing. This is called the Form of the Formless,
and the Semblance of the Invisible; this is called the Fleeting and
Indeterminable.