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๐ŸŒˆ my dreams ๐ŸŒˆ

Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2016 08:55:59 AM

come true.
every now and again i need to add a rainbow or two, especially when i seriously consider where i am today. sure the cynic within, can say all sorts of things. moving in a different direction, although, in general, i have a life that is beyond my wildest “pipe” dreams, there are days, when i feel a certain unease and discontent. today, just happens to be one of those days. there is nothing seriously wrong going on. i have a job and a career, that fulfills my needs and even many of my wants. i have a safe and warm home and a relationship that was never possible, back in the day. and yet, something feels a bit off. today all of that, is not enough and i have to go back to the basics of what it is i am doing in the here and now.
can i be grateful for what i have, even though when i seriously consider things, it does not feel like enough. i want more and more and i finally get what is going on, i am feeling the effects of addiction and using the cynic within to tell myself that i do not have enough of anything. i am forgetting what it was like and what it could be like again and falling for the half-empty, half-full trap, instead at being grateful i have a cup at all. so finally i ahve a victory this morning, all by myself i got something to work, sort of anyhow.
so as the morning burns off, and as i have a few successes, i finally am starting to get out of my funkytown state. i see that where i was, was a function of me having expectations to enter this day with absolutely no demands on my brain or time, and not having that expectation met, created a reaction in me, that is far from pretty. by stepping away, for even a few minutes.
lost dreams awaken? why yes, but even better still dreams i did not even know i had, have become desires, needs and expectations. when they are not being met, well funkytown here i come. what i had to do, was do an assignment i gave to a sponsee, are my expectations self-will or the will of the POWER that fuels my recovery? is there anything that needs to be done to allow me to let go and be okay with what i have today? do i really NEED what i think i do, or can i be grateful and have FAITH that i am getting all that i NEED, on a daily basis.
so this is running way late and i really need to get hammering away at stuff for work.
it is a good day to be clean and yes, my friends and peers, one can live out their dreams, even while living a program of recovery!

∞ 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) There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and
yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing
that can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual)
for which it can be changed.