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๐Ÿšš moving forward ๐Ÿšš

Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2020 09:32:27 AM

in my life, means that i NEED to let go of the familiar and allow change to happen. i hate to admit it, but i am certainly guilty of holding on to what i think is okay, for far too long. it is true, i am resistant to change and i suffer from the FEAR of what the unknown future will look like, if i allow myself the FREEDOM to do something different. i know from my experience that allowing change is the easier, softer way, and yet, i still find the ways and means to live in a paranoid delusions of how “awful” it might be. the fantasy of thinking that the situation will change, or that somehow i will become tolerant of the unacceptable, is one of those character traits that feel as if they are “written in stone.”
one of those p[arts of my life that is unacceptable to me, is my week of on-call for work. my employer keeps cutting team members and because i am working with an end-of-life application i do not see them doing anything to add another team member. as a result i am on-call for sixteen hours a day Monday through Thursday than form 8 AM Friday until midnight Sunday. taking a four day weekend did not get any work off my plate and the work that came in on my time away, is now on my plate. YUCK! i tell myself, now is not a good time to be actively seeking a new position and yet i grumble about how heinous things are in my current job.
and so it goes, at least, just for today, i managed to change up my schedule enough to get everything done before my on-call started and i am willing to make one more alteration to allow myself the FREEDOM to be more than ten minutes away from home. in the meantime, i think i will just take a breath, get on with what i need to do and make a place in my heart to allow change to become part of my life. perhaps, even become a bit less resistant to change and have a bit of FAITH that the POWER that fuels my recovery, quite possibly has my back.

∞ 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) May not the Way (or Tao) of Heaven be compared to the (method of)
bending a bow? The (part of the bow) which was high is brought low,
and what was low is raised up. (So Heaven) diminishes where there
is superabundance, and supplements where there is deficiency.