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jftna.org/JFT - September 11, 2018
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September 11, 2018Bend with the windPage 265 "We learn to become flexible.. As new things are revealed, we feel renewed." Basic Text, p.102 "Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer,...
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Jftna.org/jft - September 10, 2018
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September 10, 2018More powerful than words Page 264 "We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world." Basic Text, p.91 Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, "What can I do to make them...
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https://jftna.org/jft/ - september 06, 2018
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September 06, 2018Regular meeting attendancePage 260 "We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean." Basic Text, p.9 The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attend...
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https://jftna.org/jft/ - September 04, 2018
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September 04, 2018Cluttered spiritsPage 258 "We try to remember that when we make amends we are doing it for ourselves. " Basic Text, p.41 As long as we still owe amends, our spirits are cluttered with things we don't need. We're carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpr...
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https://jftna.org/jft/ - August 31, 2018
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August 31, 2018GratitudePage 253 "Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed. Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible." Basic Text, p.106 The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible. Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose trac...
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https://jftna.org/jft/ - August 30, 2018
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August 30, 2018Doing good, feeling goodPage 252 "We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling." Basic Text, p.43 The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, we're most likely to treat others...
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August 27, 2018 - JFT
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August 27, 2018Choosing lifePage 249 "Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p.15 Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every d...
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August 25, 2018 - JFT
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August 25, 2018The Ninth Step - reclaiming lifePage 247"We are achieving freedom from the wreckage of our past."Basic Text, p. 42When we start the Ninth Step, we've reached an exciting stage in our recovery. The damage done in our lives is what led many of us to seek help in the first place. Now, we hav...
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JFT - August 23, 2018
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August 23, 2018Decision-makingPage 245 "Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking." Basic Text, p. 90 Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences. When we were using, our decisions were usually driven by our dis...
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August 22, 2018 - JFT
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August 22, 2018ContributionPage 244 "We recognize our spiritual growth when we are able to reach out and help others." Basic Text, p. 58 To make a difference in the world, to contribute something special, is perhaps the highest aspiration of the human heart, Each one of us, no matter what our person...
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August 21, 2018 - Just For Today
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August 21, 2018FriendshipsPage 243 "Our friendships become deep, and we experience the warmth and caring which results from addicts sharing recovery and a new life." IP No.19,Self-Acceptance Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with few genuine friends. And most of us arrive without the slig...
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August 20, 2018 - Facing death - JFT
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August 20, 2018Facing deathPage 242 "Often we have to face some type of crisis during our recovery, such as the death of a loved one..." Basic Text, p. 102 Every life has a beginning and an end. However, when someone we love a great deal reaches the end of their life, we may have a very hard time accepting...
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August 18, 2018 - Hovv long do I have to go
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August 18, 2018"How long do I have to go?"Page 240 "The way to remain a productive, responsible member of society is to put our recovery first." Basic Text, p. 106 The meetings have been great! Each night we've attended, we've gathered with other addicts to share experience, strength, and hope. And...
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August 16, 2018 - Up or dovvn - JFT
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August 16, 2018Up or downPage 238"This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day...This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."Basic Text, p. 37Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress w...
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August 15, 2018 - Over time, not overnight - JFT
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August 15, 2018Over time, not overnightPage 237 "We found that we do not recover physically, mentally, or spiritually overnight." Basic Text, p. 28 Have you ever approached a recovery celebration with the feeling that you should be further along in your recovery than you are? Maybe you have liste...
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August 14, 2018 - Letting go of our limitations
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August 14, 2018Letting go of our limitationsPage 236 "We don't have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and reexamine our old ideas." Basic Text, p. 11 Most of us come to the program with a multitude of self-imposed limitations that prevent us from realizing our full potential, l...
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August 13, 2018 - Difficult people
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August 13, 2018Difficult peoplePage 235 "By giving unconditional love...we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual." Basic Text, p. 103 Most of us have one or two exceptionally difficult people in our lives. How do we deal with such a person in our recovery? Fi...
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August 11, 2018 JFT - Active Listening
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August 11, 2018Active listeningPage 233 "Through active listening, we hear things that work for us." Basic Text, pp. 106-107 Most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous with a very poor ability to listen. But to take full advantage of "the therapeutic value of one addict helping another," we must lea...
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JFT August 10, 2018 - Regular Prayer and Meditation
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August 10, 2018Regular prayer and meditationPage 232 "Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely." Basic Text, p. 45 Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was m...
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August 09, 2018 - The Povver of Love
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August 09, 2018The Power of lovePage 231"We begin to see that God's love has been present all the time, just waiting for us to accept it."Basic Text, p. 47God's love is the transforming power that drives our recovery. With that love, we find freedom from the hopeless, desperate cycle of using, self-h...
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JUST FOR TODAY Link
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https://jftna.org/jft/ I can't keep up, so I'm moving on. Will try to watch for questions but it looks like almost all our traffic has gone to FB and other sites. Peace out friends.
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August 06, 2018 JFT - The Joy Vvithin
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August 06, 2018The joy withinPage 228 "Since the beginning of our recovery, we have found that joy doesn't come from material things but from within ourselves." Basic Text, p. 103 Some of us came to Narcotics Anonymous impoverished by our disease. Everything we'd owned had been lost to our addictio...
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July 30, 2018 - Regular Inventory
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Page 220 "Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis." Basic Text, p. 42 Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined ourselves as l...
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JFT July 28, 2018 - Secrets and intimacy
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July 28, 2018Secrets and intimacyPage 218 "We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected." Basic Text, p. 32 Having relationships without barriers, ones in which we can be entirely open with our feelings, is something many of us desire. At the same time, the poss...
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JFT July 20, 2018 Step One
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Step OnePage 210 "We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Step One The First Step begins with "we," and there's a reason for that. There is great strength in making a verbal admission of our powerlessness. And when we go to meetings and make this...
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JFT July 19, 2018 Fulfilling our dreams
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Fulfilling our dreamsPage 209 "Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities." Basic Text, p. 71 All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had started, our addiction usually robbed us of any pride in our acco...
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JFT July 18, 2018 The gift of desperation
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The gift of desperationPage 208 "Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text, p. 13 When we think of being desperate, we envision an undesirable state: a poor, bedraggled soul frantically clawin...
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JFT July 17, 2018 Using our "using dreams"
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Using our "using dreams"Page 207 "Do we fully accept the fact that our every attempt to stop using or to control our using failed?" Basic Text, p. 19 The room is dark. Your forehead is bathed in cold sweat. Your heart is racing. You open your eyes, sure that you've just blown your clean time. You've had a "...
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JFT July 16, 2018 Self-esteem
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Self-esteemPage 206 "Deep inside, I had feelings of inadequacy and inferiority." Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, "You're worthless!" Many of us learn to recognize this characterist...
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JFT July 15, 2018 Relations with others
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Relations with othersPage 205 "We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Eight All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for peo...
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