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jftna.org/jft - 16. November 2018
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November 16, 2018Alone no morePage 334 "We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life." Basic Text, p. 37 Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other people-especially people who were not using-at all cos...
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jftna.org/jft - 15. November 2018
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November 15, 2018Letting goPage 333 "Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live." Basic Text, p. 26 How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through ot...
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jftna.org/jft - 14. November 2018
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November 14, 2018Not just survivingPage 332 "When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving." Basic Text, p. 52 "I'd be better off dead!" A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was mor...
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jftna.org/jft - 13. November 2018
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November 13, 2018Not perfectPage 331 "We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human." Basic Text, p. 31 All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe w...
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jftna.org/jft - 12. November 2018
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November 12, 2018Our own storyPage 330 "When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us." Basic Text, p. 98 Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous...
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jftna.org/jft - 10. November 2018
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November 10, 2018Fear or faith?Page 328 "No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us." Basic Text, p. 14 For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situ...
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jftna.org/jft - 9. November 2018
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November 09, 2018The best-laid plansPage 327 "It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power." Basic Text, p. 91 There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a ner...
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jftna.org/jft - 8. November 2018
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November 08, 2018Freed from insanityPage 326 "Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, 'May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident.'" Basic Text, p.24 We've heard it said that unless we're in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: O...
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jftna.org/jft - 7. November 2018
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November 07, 2018Feeling God's willPage 325 "I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful." The longer we stay clean, the less surely we "know" what our Higher Powe...
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I am 55 years old, always held a job, raised our children, never been caught with drugs, and have literally done drugs for decades. I guess I am what you would call a functional drug addict. I have always treated drugs like alcohol you don't drive, you don't do it at work etc. Not being caught has given me t...
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jftna.org/jft - 5. November 2018
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November 05, 2018God's guidancePage 323 "Our Higher power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us." Basic Text, p. 95 It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principl...
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jftna.org/jft - 4. November 2018
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November 04, 2018Exchanging lovePage 322 "...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another." Basic Text, p. 105 Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the uni...
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Jftna.org/JFT nov 01 - 2018
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November 01, 2018AwakeningPage 319 "God helps us as we help each other." Basic Text, p.52 Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayers-if we prayed at all-were self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didn't want t...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 31 - 2018
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October 31, 2018Our relationship with a Higher Power Page 317 "Ongoing 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...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 30 - 2018
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October 30, 2018CouragePage 316 "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 life's terms without the use of drugs isn't always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it req...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 29 - 2018
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October 29, 2018Living in the nowPage 315 "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 was-or could be-can consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it was-or could be-can divert us from taking action in th...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 28 - 2018
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October 28, 2018AttitudesPage 314 "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 people's inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find y...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 27 - 2018
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October 27, 2018Living in the presentPage 313 "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 aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memo...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 26 - 2018
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October 26, 2018The path to self-acceptancePage 312 "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 anyo...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 25 - 2018
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October 25, 2018Principles before personalitiesPage 311 "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 whenev...
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http://jftna.org/jft/ - October 24, 2018
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October 24, 2018ResponsibilityPage 310 "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....
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 22 - 2018
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October 22, 2018Look who's talkingPage 308 "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 won't turn off." Still others refer to "the committee in my mind" or "the monkey on my back." Let's fa...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 21 - 2018
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October 21, 2018God's will todayPage 307 "This decision demands continued acceptance, ever increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery." IP No.14, One Addict's Experience Sometimes, we really live the Third Step-and it's great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future...
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jftna.org/JFT - october 20, 2018
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October 20, 2018Freedom to choosePage 306 "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 prefer...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 19 - 2018
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October 19, 2018Standing for somethingPage 305 "...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 fro...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 17 - 2018
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October 18, 2018We all belongPage 304 "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, we'll find a variety of people that probabl...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 16 - 2018
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October 16, 2018The simplest prayerPage 302 "...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 don't even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotic...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 15 - 2018
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October 15, 2018ChoicesPage 301 "We did not choose to become addicts." Basic Text, p. 3 When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 13 - 2018
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October 13, 2018Making a differencePage 299 "Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person." Basic Text, p. 104 Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget...
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Jftna.org/JFT oct. 12 - 2018
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October 12, 2018Being rightPage 298 "When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view... We no longer have to be right all the time." Basic Text, p. 58 Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to b...
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