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JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance
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We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us.Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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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 situations gave us a convenient excuse t...
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Hello everyone, I got a job after 7 yrs! wanted to share
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Good morning all! Just wanted to share with all what god has done in my life! I have had 3 DUI's and got caught driving on a revoked, i hit a cop car in my own neighborhood and left the scene! I have been to AA, NA, rehab, tons of meetings had a sponsor and I still could not stop the pills, I had not had a...
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JFt November 9 The best-laid plans
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It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power.Basic Text, p. 91=Theres 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 theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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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=Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...
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JFT November 7 Feelings God's will
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November 7Feeling Gods willI sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods 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 Powers will for us isand th...
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how can i do this
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i need help. i cant do this on my own. i am powerless and helpless. i have a half bottle of whiskey at my bedside and trying to hold off the klonipin. 24 hrs and anxiety is building. i found a meeting place and pray i will get the courage to go. i have lost everything but my life and i am clinging to it by a shoe str...
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10th Step Prayer (NA)
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Dear God, show me what I did right and wrong today, show me how I can better live and serve Thy will tommorow. (Follow with 3rd Step Prayer NA) Take my will and my life, Guide me in my recovery, show me how to live !
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JFT November 6 Understanding humility
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Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves.Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...
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7th Step Prayer (from another significant Fellowship)
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My Creator, Im now wiiling, that you have all of me, Both the "good" and the "bad". Remove from me, every single defect of character, that stands in the way, of my usefulness to you and to my fellowmen. Grant me the strength, to do your bidding, as I go out from here ! (Amen)..........
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JFT November 5 God's guidance
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November 5Gods guidanceOur Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us.Basic Text, p. 95=Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first ti...
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JFT November 4 Exchanging love
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...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 universal common denominator, connecti...
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Experiences I Don’t Understand; Hidden Gems anywhere in it ?
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Sometimes I have an experience that I dont understand;like the recurring anger with my mother. Today was another instance of meaningless anger with her. There I am enjoying a holiday with my daughter and then we decide to watch TV with ma. Maybe the serial we were watching brought up anger, or maybe it...
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happy holloween
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just a quick update... things are going well despite the manic episode still dating the same person I am not only learning bout him I am learning to love myself its been refreshing and healthy go fiure who would,ve thought its good I am happy and still clean amazing I have been shown more bout who i really...
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JFT November 3 No matter what
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We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?Basic Text, p. 88=Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare so...
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Scientist Closer to Creating Addiction Vaccine
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A shot to stop measles, the flu, Chicken Pox, HPV, Hepatitis B, Tetanusand drug addiction? Twenty-five years of intensive research and over 200 million dollars in clinical studies later, Dr. Kim Janda is slightly closer to having a vaccine to curb drug addiction.Although its uncertain if or when a...
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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt.Basic Text, p. 56=For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and theres no end in sight?Most of us know what its li...
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CHAT ROOMS
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WENT TO THE CHAT ROOMS BUT IT IS BLANK, DOWNLOADED WHAT IS SAID TO DOWNLOAD AND NOTHING HAPPENED ANYONE ELSE HAVE A PROBLEM, NOT HAVING MUCH LUCK ON THIS SITE AT ALL, DID MAKE A NEW FRIEND WHO KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH ME FROM ANOTHER NA SITE, ANYONE OUT THERE??
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IS THE ONLY MEETING AT 10, I AM IN BED BY THEN, I NEED TO PICK MYSELF UP AND GET TO SOME OUTSIDE MEETINGS AND I GUESS IT HAS TO BE AA SINCE THE NA IS FARTHER AWAY AND ONLY 2 NIGHTS A WEEK, THE AA IS EVERY DAY 3 TIMES A DAY, WOULD APPRECIATE IF SOMEONE KNOWS OF MORE ONLINE MEETINGS THAN ONE AT NIGHT, PARTICULAR...
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An adventuresome weekend!
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Morning and blessing of this day We were belted with a very unusual Northeaster snow storm in the Hudson Valley AREA OF upstate New York this weekend.Over 148000 power outages cause heavy snow on leave lined trees came toppling down,We were blessed only lost web availability wi/fi and TV....Wires d...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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God helps us as we help each other.Basic Text, p. 52=Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayersif we prayed at allwere self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didnt want to live with the problems wed create...
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Rolling back in
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Hey, it really feels good to be back; I missed you guys. I just got tired of solitary so I got myself a f2f group...Now I can't afford gas to get there! So you are my lifeline. Did anyone miss me?? I think Raman is the only familiar face. Knocking on heaven's door!
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another avatar of mine, another side of me !!!
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Guru Saxman speaks (hehehe) "Look to this day, for it is Life; the very Life of Life. And in it's brief course lie all the Realities and Verities of Existence. The Bliss of Growth, the Splendor of Action, and the Glory of Power. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well li...
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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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