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:: Thursday, January 08, 2004 ::

progress

God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.

Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would always be with me, and that You would keep me from evil.

Thank You for keeping me sober today. Amen.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. -- Franz Grillparzer, “Progress,” Poems

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress. -- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. -- George Santayana, “Reason in Common Sense”, The Life of Reason

Yesterday I met with Kyle the Controller and Susan the CFO regarding my reconciliation. They both seemed pleased with my progress but anxious for a resolution and to see whether or not the problem is what they think it is. I think we came up with a couple of good solutions for segregating void and reissue checks in order to make future reconciliations easier.

I took my lasagna to work and will do so again today. I'm hoping I can save up to around $900 a year by doing this more often. After work, I picked up the Lambda checking account statement and got everything reconciled and up to date. In fact, I'm able to write checks totaling $1,645 to Dallas Intergroup, GSO, and the other groups to whom we contribute any surplus. I am amazed at the progress the group has made in the past several months.

I had a chance to talk to Joe and to watch The West Wing which I missed most of last fall because of statistics class. This morning, I did my own banking and paid the first installment of my Spring 2003 tuition. Now, onward and upward.

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