Status Quo
I’m struggling a little lately…maybe avoiding the work that needs to be done in order to take me to the next step in recovery. In working with my sponsee, I realize how much work I need to do of my own. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t drink…not today, anyway. Working as my home group’s secretary has also made me truly realize how important service work is. Not just the work itself, but the accountability of me to show up and do my job. The sad death of Elaine really makes me understand the power of addiction and how it will sneak back up on you and take everything away if we’re not diligent about our recovery. On a happier note, my cousin has made it into treatment. She could use your warm thoughts and prayers as she begins on the long journey towards wellness.
On the homefront, the kiddos are both back in school (on opposite ends of the valley) and doing really well. Work is busy. Life is good.
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“Doing good for others” (step #3 in the Soto Zen system I trained, after “Cease from evil” and “Do good”. *grin*) is so often abstracted. “Well, I would very much love to save the world, and would actually make time to do so, but I don’t see how I can actually do that.”
Service … filling the gaps … meeting the needs of those who are really near us.
“The builder of the house of ego” always provides rationalizations for what is, at base, merely sloth. heh … clehvur we iz, ohh yes!
Mangalam!