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Post Info TOPIC: JFT January 8 Growing up


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JFT January 8 Growing up


"Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth."

Basic Text, p. 44

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When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that they've "grown up" in NA.  Well, then, we think, what does that mean?  We start to wonder if were grownups yet.  We check our lives and yes, all the trappings of adulthood are there: the checkbook, the children, the job, the responsibilities.  On the inside, though, we often feel like children.  Were still confused by life much of the time.  We don't always know how to act.  We sometimes wonder whether were really grownups at all, or whether we're children who've somehow been put into adult bodies and given adult responsibilities.

Growth is not best measured by physical age or levels of responsibility.  Our best measure of growth is our spiritual condition, the basis of our recovery.  If were still depending on people, places, and things to provide our inner satisfaction, like a child depending on its parents for everything, we do indeed have some growing to do.  But if we stand secure on the foundation of our spiritual condition, considering its maintenance our most important responsibility, we can claim maturity.  Upon that foundation, our opportunities for growth are limitless.

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Just for today:  The measure of my maturity is the extent to which I take responsibility for the maintenance of my spiritual condition.  Today, this will be my highest priority.

 



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