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:: Saturday, June 26, 2004 ::

hope

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.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. -- Proverbs 13:12

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. -- Samuel Johnson, June 8, 1762

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
-- Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace

Finally, an opportunity to blog again. On Memorial Day, when I was installing a new optical mouse, my hard drive crashed. I later found out when I took the computer into Fry's Electronics that something was physically wrong with the drive. They could not connect because the head was rattling. I finally had the old drive removed and had a new one installed. I ordered the QuickRestore CDs from Compaq and got everything functioning again this week.

Emotionally, this has been a very up and down month for me. The whole computer thing was depressing. I didn't realize how much I rely on it. I bought new tires for my car before driving down to our family reunion in Salado. We had a great turnout there. Several families came that had not attended in several years.

Work has been a bitch but is slowly getting better. I'm basically having to redo all the work done in the previous six periods because it was done incorrectly. Once we get this all cleaned up, it should be much easier.

My family celebrated Fathers Day by going to the Concerts in the Gardens in Fort Worth. I was able to visit with my brother Bart which I've not been able to in a while. He and Jennifer have been very concerned about their son Brooks who had a cataract removed last month. The steroids Brooks must take for it have cause him to really bulk up, but his boisterous personality remains the same.

I miss Ross and Uncle Hal but am slowly getting used to life without them. They both call often, and I'm trying to make an effort to reconnect with people in my AA group by attending more meetings.

That's all for now. It's nice to be able to blog again.

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