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JFT October 31 Our relationship with our higher power
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October 31 Our relationship with a Higher PowerOngoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves.Basic Text, p. 99=Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some gu...
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JFT October 30 Courage
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Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future.Basic Text, p. 96=Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on lifes terms without the use of drugs isnt always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of courage....
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antsy, squirrelly, anxious
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There are so many words to describe what ultimately can only be called fear. I'm in these past several days. Don't really know why, but I got it. that uneasy feeling that something isn't right. Fear of the future? Have been here before for sure. Know the things that work to make me feel better, namely...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future.Basic Text, pp. 94=Thoughts of how bad it wasor could becan consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it wasor could becan divert us from taking action in the real world. Thats why, in Narcotics Anon...
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An addict trying to fix him/herself is like
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Don't trying doing it on your own
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes.Basic Text, p. 55=Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking peoples inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your coworke...
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JFT October 27 Living in the present
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We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today.Basic Text, p. 29=For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives arent the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The gui...
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Someone said,
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" it's not what happens to us that makes a difference; It's our reaction that makes the difference."
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hi
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well here i am feeling hopeless again. reason? there is none. im still happy with life but feelings of sadness and hopelessness and welp depression is back.
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JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance
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The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery.IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject us....
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God's will for us?
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Morning, blessings of this day! Last night at my homegroup , we had a person who has gone by her nickname for as long as I have known her .As she shared last night, her first statement was my real name is.....and its not ,this or that. I am ready to know the real me and let you all also know. I have watched her gr...
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Wish Sunday was longer than Monday !~
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Terrific street rock jam,,, late nite with the Convention committee (I was elected hospitality chair), Late risin on Sunday morn, vocal class for a promising singer, time with my daughter (shes really looking like shes enjoying basketball) and then my mom,,, and now here and there with FB and here I...
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JFT October 25 Principles before personalities
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.Tradition Twelve=Principles before personalities. Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these word...
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JFT October 24 Responsibility
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We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better.Basic Text, p. 91=The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Narc...
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JFT October 23 Surrender
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By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power.Basic Text, p. 44=When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didnt, we felt vulnerab...
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JFT October 22 Look who's talking
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Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations.Basic Text, p. 83=Some of us say, My disease is talking to me. Others say, My head wont turn off. Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Lets face it. We suffer from an incurable malady that cont...
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JFT October 21 God's will today
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This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery.IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience=Sometimes, we really live the Third Stepand its great! We dont regret the past, we arent afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the present...
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Couple Bites
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Morning and blessings of this day. I have been on Monster .Com for about last 6 months and also Deerfield and Lauderdale Job sites searching for employment as we are packing up,leaving New York and moving to Florida in july 2012(bout 8 months).I have managed a workshop for People With Disabilitie...
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sorry
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I am not the easioest person to get a hold of Liz I love ya dear but I am going thru alot I know I don't have to do it alone but i prefer it this way still clean been dating the same guys since june I belie ve but don't make me a liar thins arfe great as i watch my life evovle in to something beautiful I finally have a...
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JFT October 20 Freedom to choose
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Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life.Basic Text, p. 45=In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We a...
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childish i know but im angry at God
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im thinkin satans getting a grip on me subtly slowly so im going to start rebuking that nasty spirit. been really wanting to use im uncomfortable in my skin, angry a lot, no peace no serenity, wanting sex to much LOL ( outlet) just a bunch of crud going on. nope no praying much no meditation , remember im...
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Someone's got a birthday today
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Today is Miss Manon's birthday! 
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Experience, Strength and Hope needed pronto...spouse wanting me to cut back on mtgs
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Hi, Jen here (glad I found this place whew) Lil background here... I'm 34 y.o., had a very bad opiate addiction, went to detox 2/20/11 and have endulged myself in this NA program. I have learned soooo much over these months and am finally almost happy with everything, except my non-addict husband. M...
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Knowing the insanity was building........
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Just wanted to share this briefly about how the insanity of "life" in general,yes even in recovery, thinking im doing the work, can build and take us back to our insane behaviors.Dont get me wrong,I fall short daily, but sometimes I tell myself things that arent true(hello!!) Last week im...
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A Simple Gesture
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Morning ,blessings of this day! While doing some morning spiritual readings, I came across very similar statements from totally different writings. One writing says" everyone can be great,because anyone can serve,you don't need a college degree or your subject and verb to agree ,you only...
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us.Basic Text, p. 88=In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind.Basic Text, p. 87=What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room toget...
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JFT October 17 The truth
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Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth.Basic Text, p. 94=Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was tha...
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Pickin Things Up
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Just reading through some of the JFTs, and workin on my first step. Reviewed my older first step... Lookin maybe for a female sponsor. just some one to go over stuff with me. Having a bit of trouble in finding one. One of the down falls of my recovery is that I havent ever had a sponsor in the 3 years I would ha...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Step Eleven=How do we pray? With little experience, many of us dont even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated.We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction....
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