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jftna.org/jft - 28. November 2018
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November 28, 2018Being ourselves Page 346 "To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves." Basic Text, p. 36 Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation,but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But that's not w...
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jftna.org/jft - 27. November 2018
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November 27, 2018Seeking God's helpPage 345 "At times during our recovery, the decision to ask for God's help is our greatest source of strength and courage." Basic Text, p. 26 When we take the Third Step, we decide to allow a loving Higher Power to guide us and care for us in our daily lives. We make the d...
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jftna.org/jft - 26. November 2018
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November 26, 2018ResponsibilityPage 344 "A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take the time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow." IP No.8, Just For Today Responsibility, responsibility-the responsibilities of life are everywhe...
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jftna.org/jft - 25. November 2018
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November 25, 2018MeditationPage 343 "Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, pp. 46-47 As our recovery progresses, we often reflect on what brought us to Narcotics Anonymous in the first place and are able to apprec...
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jftna.org/jft - 24. November 2018
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November 24, 2018Gratefully recoveringPage 342 "We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger." Basic Text, p. 102 There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. It's easy to do. We may have expectations about...
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Jftna.org/JFT nov. 23 - 2018
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November 23, 2018God's willPage 341 "The relief of 'letting go and letting God' helps us develop a life that is worth living." Basic Text, p. 26 In our addiction, we were afraid of what might happen if we didn't control everything around us. Many of us made up elaborate lies to protect our use of drugs. S...
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Jftna.org/JFT nov. 22 - 2018
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November 22, 2018Foundation firstPage 340 "As we begin to function in society, our creative freedom helps us sort our priorities and do the basic things first." Basic Text, p. 86 No sooner do we get clean than some of us begin putting other priorities ahead of our recovery. Careers, families, relati...
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jftna.org/jft - 21. November 2018
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November 21, 2018Letting our defects go Page 339 "If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation." Basic Text, p. 35 Getting started on the Sixth and Seventh Steps isn't always easy. We may feel as though we have so much wrong with u...
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jftna.org/jft - 20. November 2018
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November 20, 2018Finding fulfillmentPage 338 "We weren't oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all." Basic Text, p. 89 There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could t...
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jftna.org/jft - 19. November 2018
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November 19, 2018The language of empathyPage 337 "...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years. " Basic Text, p. 88 Many of us attended our first meeting and, not be...
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jftna.org/jft - 18. November 2018
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November 18, 2018Self-discoveryPage 336 "The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence." Basic Text, p. 42 Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us sha...
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jftna.org/jft - 17. November 2018
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November 17, 2018Walking through the pain Page 335 "We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass." Basic Text, p. 82 It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still don't feel any better. "It will pass," a little voice t...
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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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