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JFT August 31 Gratitude


 

 

"Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed.  Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible."

Basic Text, p. 106

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The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible.  Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much weve been given.  How, exactly, have our lives changed in Narcotics Anonymous?

The bottom line of recovery, of course, is freedom from the compulsion to use.  No longer must we devote all our resources to feeding our addiction.  No longer must we endanger, humiliate, or abuse ourselves or others just to get the next fix.  Abstinence itself has brought great freedom to our lives.

Narcotics Anonymous has given us much more than simple abstinence--we've been given a whole new life.  We've taken our inventory and have identified the defects of character that bound us for so long, keeping us from living and enjoying life.  Weve surrendered those shortcomings, taken responsibility for them, and sought the direction and power we need to live differently.  Our home group has given us the personal warmth and support that helps us continue living in recovery.  And topping all this off, we have the love, care, and guidance of the God weve come to understand in NA.

In the course of day-to-day recovery, we sometimes forget how much our lives have changed in Narcotics Anonymous.  Do we fully appreciate what our program has given us?

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Just for today:  Recovery has given me freedom.  I will greet the day with hope, grateful that anything is possible today.

 



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Finding recovery has given me my life back . Once a slave to bad actions and choices. I really think I made the right choice noe to stay in recovery and have a life and new friends .

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