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Post Info TOPIC: JFT August 29 Don't look back


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JFT August 29 Don't look back


 

 

  "The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse.  Our futures are changed because we dont have to avoid those who we have harmed.  As a result...we receive a new freedom that can end isolation."

Basic Text, p. 39

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Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regrets about our past.  Our steps help us begin to resolve those regrets.  We examine our lives, admit our wrongs, make amends for them, and sincerely try to change our behavior.  In doing so, we find a joyous sense of freedom.

No longer must we deny or regret our past.  Once we've made our amends, what's done is truly over and gone.  From that point on, where we come from ceases to be the most important thing about us.  It's where we are going that counts.

In NA, we begin to look forward.  True, we live and stay clean just for today.  But we find that we can begin to set goals, dream dreams, and look ahead to the joys a life in recovery has to offer.  Looking forward keeps us centered in where we are going, not remorseful or regretful about our past.  After all, it is hard to move forward if we are looking back.

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Just for today:  The steps have freed me from regrets over my past.  Today, I look forward to my new life in recovery.

 



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I know when I arrived at my first NA meeting , I had many regrets of my past .Learning of Step Work taught me that I can change those regrets ,the Steps have helped me get rid of my regrets from the past . I enjoy the new life I've found in recovery .

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