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:: Thursday, May 20, 2004 ::

reconciliation

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.

Every man is in a state of conflict, owing to his attempt to reconcile himself and his relationship with life to his conception of harmony. This conflict makes his soul a battlefield, where the forces that wish this reconciliation fight those that do not and reject the alternative solutions they offer. Works of art are attempts to fight out this conflict in the imaginative world. -- Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity

The poet ... like the lover ... is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so. -- Babette Deutsch, “Poetry at the Mid-Century,” The Writers Book

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -- Quentin Crisp, How to Become a Virgin

Well, I began my new assignment at Consolidated Communications yesterday. It seems like a great group of people, and the offices are beautiful. The monthly reconciliations are going to be a beat-down, but hopefully I can do a few things to speed them up. Otherwise, I think it should be a pretty good assignment.

Tuesday, I was finally able to get the rest of the literature invoices from Janis at Dallas Intergroup. I've now brought QuickBooks for Lambda totally up to date on this. Once I've gone through the revenue breakdown and the coffee/supplies expenses, our records will be as accurate as they can be. I made a motion at the business meeting Monday night to eliminate the sale of literature and to purchase $60 worth of Big Books for distribution to first-time newcomers. We tend to lose $1300 to $2600 a year on literature which is affecting our prudent reserve. My greater concern is that the group has never made a conscious decision on how to deal with this other than locking up the literature, but that doesn't seem to have helped much. Perhaps I should let it be, but it seems to me that denial of the issue is just enabling the stealing behavior of members of our group. I'll let the group conscience decide next month.

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