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Post Info TOPIC: JFT April 25 Embracing reality


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JFT April 25 Embracing reality


"Recovery is a reality for us today."

Basic Text, p. 101

Pain and misery were realities in our using lives.  We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives.  We attempted to escape life's pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troubles.  Our altered sense of reality became a nightmare.

Through living the program of Narcotics Anonymous, we learn that our dreams can replace our nightmares.  We grow and change.  We acquire the freedom of choice.  We are able to give and receive love.  We can share honestly about ourselves, no longer magnifying or minimizing the truth.  We accept the challenges real life offers us, facing them in a mature, responsible way.

Although recovery does not give us immunity from the realities of life, in the NA Fellowship we can find the support, genuine care, and concern we need to face those realities.  We need never hide from reality by using drugs again, for our unity with other recovering addicts gives us strength.  Today, the support, the care, and the empathy of recovery give us a clean, clear window through which to view, experience, and appreciate reality as it is.

 

Just for today:  A gift of my recovery is living and enjoying life as it truly is.  Today, I will embrace reality.

 

 



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