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Thu, Jan 5, 2006 08:37:49 AM


∞ recovery, my home, my family and me ∞
posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 08:37:49 AM

 

took the day off from work and am a bit late getting my morning started, but that is to be expected!
anyhow, this reading has always been a bit troublesome for me, i have been a single guy since starting down this path and only now am starting to think about building a home for me and my significant other. that is not to say that i have not been part of a family unit, just not a traditional one, and i am almost never home. it has become a lot worse over the past couple of years because of my involvement in a new relationship and changes around my current house. what i did bring from the reading this morning is that while recovery Cactivities are very important for me, i cannot continue to live as if they are my en6tire life. i need to carry those principles into my home life and actually spend some time with my family and significant other.
truthfully, that balance has been difficult for me to achieve and i often fall way short of even beginning to it. i am however more open-minded today and willing to once again look at trying to balance the time i spend on my recovery related activities and the time i spend with those with whom i share my life. i know that thgey stood by me when i was struggling to get clean, forgave me for the damage i cuased as a result of being me and only want what is best for me today, so my job is to find the time to be part of their lives again, while managing my life in the fellowship that gave me anew life. a simple, necssary task but one that will not easy but one i must once again commit myself to. and you know what, perhaps today is the day to start that job again!
∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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.