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JFT October 2 Keeping faith
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We grasp the limitless strength provided for us through our daily prayer and surrender as long as we keep faith and renew it. Basic Text, p. 46 =There are two parts to recovery: getting clean, and staying clean. Getting clean is comparatively easy because we only have to do it once. Staying clean i...
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JFT October 1 Not just a motivation for growth
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We learn that pain can be a motivating factor in recovery. Basic Text, p. 30 =Painwho needs it! we think whenever were in it. We see no good purpose for pain. It seems to be a pointless exercise in suffering. If someone happens to mention spiritual growth to us while were in pain, we most likely snor...
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the aniversary of my suicide
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AS october 11th starts to near i find my self still pisses off i was to stupid to even pull that off i still hate the world rather or not i still put my smile on i have been faking it till i make it since but does the desire of death after being so close ever go away as for me i try to calculate where i went wrong the...
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JFT September 30 Being ourselves
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Our real value is in being ourselves.Basic Text, p. 105=Over and over, we have tried to live up to the expectations of those around us. We may have been raised believing that we were okay if we earned good grades in school, cleaned our rooms, or dressed a certain way. Always wanting to belong and be l...
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Looking for a surrogate Father Figure - need to make up missed times to a surrogate daughter?
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Do you know anyone that might need a daughter-figure in his life?? A HUGE source of issues for my girlfriend is from her dad not caring for her, being there or advising her to make healthy decisions throughout her youth. Even when he writes to her, currently from prison, its all about him his issues on...
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Building Your Faith
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Quote: Heb 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This scripture right here has always intrigued myself personally. People would say, how to be able to have more faith, or how to maybe even exercise faith. Having faith is in my opinion a gift that is g...
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Odds 'n' Ends...
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So backing up to my post in mid-August... after returning from LA, I decided to quit crabbin' about life and do something different. I decided that hey, I'm young, smart, and motivated. Let's try something new. So I'm taking some chemical dependency courses (an intro class and a pharmacology cla...
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JFT September 29 Just for today
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.Basic Text, p. 99=Just for todayits a comforting thought. If we try to live in the past, we may find ourselves torn by painful, disquieting memories. The lessons of our using are not the teachers we seek for recov...
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JFT September 28 Hope
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope.Basic Text, p. 95=As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to...
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One More Day
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I found this meditation book that is for people who have chronic Illnesses. I am not saying that I will post them everyday here but I would like to share. If this needs put into another section that is OK Just didn't know where to put it. One More Day September 28, 2011 Quote:A positive, responsible perso...
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How life events have evolved over the years!
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Blessings of this day! This Sunday, going to have a couple Venison roasts and some steaks ,the last of my take from last season as Bow season(Deer Hunting) begins here in a couple weeks in Upstate New York! Having some recovering addicts and some sponsees over for good clean fun and fellowship, do som...
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update
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Good Mornin NA Family! Just thought I'd give a little update as to my thoughts and actions recently. Woke up Sunday Mornin cravin drugs and in a foul mood. Needless to say my anxiety and irritablility sky rocketed. Unfortunately, my husband was the recipent of all my unbridled fury. This led to guilt a...
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JFT September 27 Right back up
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There is something in our self-destructive personalities that cries for failure.Basic Text, p. 80=Poor me; woe is me; look at me, my life is such a mess! Ive fallen, and no matter how hard I try, I continue to fail. Many of us came to NA singing this sad refrain.Life isnt like that anymore. True, so...
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JFT September 26 Seeing ourselves in others
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It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another.Basic Text, p. 38=How easy it is to point out the faults of others! Theres a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the defects we are most familiar with in our own characters. We may notice our best fri...
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JFT September 25 The fourth step--fearing our feelings
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September 25The Fourth Stepfearing our feelingsWe may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic.Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be t...
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JFT September 24 A growing concept of God
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The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We dont have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe.Basic Text, p. 24=In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. Th...
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first anniversary jitters
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hello my NA family first of all, I'm glad you're here. I'll go to a meeting soon but I need to dump this now, on my way to work. a year ago yesterday I was at my bottom. I'm grateful for it; it woke me up to the insanity of my life I'd been pretending to live for decades. yesterday was hard -- I was irritable all...
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Blame & Personal Responsibilty
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I am not an addict but an addict's soon-to-be-ex wife. My husband of almost 5 yrs and father of our three children, admitted to using again and is trying to place blame on me. He claims that his support system "vanished", that I deleted all of his contact numbers out of his cell phone (he got a n...
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I don't know what else to do. my life, my world is crumbling around me. and theres nothing i can do about it. The love of my life is breaking my heart, stabbing my soul, and driving me to extinction. theres is nothing left for me to do. im done trying. he moved 300 miles away. he said hes too busy. he said he can...
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What is UP with this?!
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The last few days, maybe moreso the last week, I've been going crazy! Maybe it's just stress from work, plus taking 2 online classes... but maybe it's the weather. It's starting to change seasons around here and I've barely gotten 2 dozen tomatoes out of my garden. Kinda depressing, especially wh...
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How are you?
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I truly view the people who regularly visit this site as a family. If you haven't posted in a while know that you are missed so, How are you Manon, MeditationMan, sstaceye69, drugfree, rocky, LeeU, tahir, JoeB, jcd, Nikky, Anthony G, CooncatBob, Viablex, Tisa2u, Brandi65, freedomdove, peachz, Van...
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Narcotics Anonymous has shown me a new way to live
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Good morning and blessings of this day! As speaker last night at a new meeting in Beacon New York ,about 25 miles from where I live,I was able to share my ESH and how by the guidance of the God of my understanding, the understanding and application of our solution, the steps(worked with a sponsor)I am ab...
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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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September 23Dealing with gossipIn accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other.Basic Text, p. 11=Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift.Basic Text, p. 107=Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine m...
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Honesty through Anonymity
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I need to be honest with someone. I was working on a project at work that's really out of my field of expertise. There are parts I do really well, and there are parts where I am totally clueless. Honestly, it intimidates the hell out of me. So I put it off. Now it's past due. I've already given every exc...
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Have A Nice Day
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills.Basic Text, p. 46=Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in childhood but weren...
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Attended my first NA meeting!
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Hi all, Justed wanted to let you know I attended my first NA meeting tonite. The whole way driving there I was having to fight the urge to call one of my dealers to get pot and just zone out. It was an inner struggle for sure but in the end I went to the meeting and I am so glad I did. I met two ladies whom have been s...
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Serenity Prayer=Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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sounds like life to me
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well last night i was rushed to the ER. I had 3 seizures in an hour. they ran some tests and said the results should be back soon. im kind of scared. i already have a ton of health issues. what if this one is death? ha i wasnt afraid of death when i tried to kill myself multiple times but why am i scared now? i feel...
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