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:: Saturday, March 18, 2006 ::

emptiness

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.

Nature abhors a vacuum. -- French monk, humanist, satirist, physician. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1, Ch. 5

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth. -- Heinz R Pagels, Executive Director, New York Academy of Sciences, Vogue January 1986

the gap of today filling itself
as emptiness is distributed
in the idea of what time it is
when that time is already past
-- John Ashbery, U.S. poet, critic. “As You Came from the Holy Land”

Yesterday was a very blah day. Boredom wears me out. I am so glad that I may be leaving at the end of next month. I need to be grateful that I have a job or, at least, a paycheck. I feel like I am on the brink of something new. I'm just waiting to see what that is.

Last night, I went to the six o'clock AA meeting and then to dinner at Black-Eyed Pea with a bunch of the guys. This morning, I'm going to a Bread for the World workshop, but I'm going to eat breakfast at Lucky's first.

Emptiness is the first condition of a miracle. I will focus on emptiness today.

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