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JFT May 28, 2018 As we understand
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As we understandPage 154 "We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves." Basic Text, p. 36 As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get ou...
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JFT May 24, 2018 Risking vulnerability
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Risking vulnerabilityPage 150 "As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings." Basic Text, p. 85 Rather than risk vulnerability, many of us have developed habits that keep others at a safe distance. These patterns of emotional isolation can give us the...
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JFT May 23, 2018 Amends and sponsors
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Amends and sponsors Page 149"We want to be free of our guilt, but we don't wish to do so at the expense of anyone else."Basic Text, p. 40Let's face it: Most of us left trails of destruction in our wakes and harmed anyone who got in our way. Some of the people we hurt most in our addiction were the people we lov...
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JFT May 22, 2018 Symptoms of a spiritual awakening
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Symptoms of a spiritual awakeningPage 148 "The steps lead to an awakening of a spiritual nature. This awakening is evidenced by changes in our lives." Basic Text, p. 49 We know how to recognize the disease of addiction. Its symptoms are indisputable. Besides an uncontrollable appetite for drugs, t...
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JFT May 21, 2018 Keep coming back!
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Keep coming back!Page 147 "Meetings keep us in touch with where we've been, but more importantly with where we could go in our recovery." Basic Text, p. 56 In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we coul...
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Jft May 20 Coming out of isolation
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Coming out of isolationPage 146 "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic Text, p. 102 Active addiction kept us isolated for many reasons. In the beginning, we avoided family and friends so they wouldn't find out we were using. Some of us avoided all...
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JFT May 19, 2018 A growth inventory
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A growth inventoryPage 145 "We review our past performance and our present behavior to see what we want to keep and what we want to discard." Basic Text, p. 29 As each day winds to a close, many of us reflect on the past twenty-four hours and consider how we can live differently in the future. It's easy for...
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JFT May 18, 2018 Friends and amends�keeping it simple
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Friends and amendskeeping it simplePage 144 "We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." Step Nine In every relationship, we don't always handle things the way we would have hoped. But friendships don't have to end when we make mistakes;...
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JFT May 17, 2018 "Defects"
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"Defects"Page 143 "We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." Step Six After taking the Fifth Step, many of us spend some time considering "the exact nature of our wrongs" and the part they'd played in making us who we were. What would our lives be like without, say, our a...
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JFT May 16, 2018 Our Higher Power's will
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Our Higher Power's willPage 142 "God's will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 48 The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationsh...
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YOUR LINK FOR TODAY'S JFT
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Here is how you get everyday Just For Today. Click the link save it to your browser!! http://jftna.org/jft/ I'll try to keep posting, but I'm not perfect and weekends are tough for me.
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JFT May 15, 2018 Fear of the Fourth Step
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Fear of the Fourth StepPage 141 "As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us." Basic Text, p. 27 Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. We're afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, we'll fin...
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Jft May 14, 2018 Oops!
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Oops!Page 140 "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." Basic Text, p. 23 Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt-at the very least, with frustration...
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JFT May 13, 2018 Onward on the journey
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Onward on the journeyPage 139 "The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey." Basic Text, p. 83 The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesn't give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how...
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JFT May 11, 2018 Balancing the scales
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Balancing the scales Page 137"A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an old timer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer."Basic Text, p. 43Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down...
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Jft May 10, 2018 Becoming entirely ready
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Becoming entirely readyPage 136 "We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects." Basic Text, p. 34 Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetim...
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Continuation of Funding Drive
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Hello all, we have now paid our "Go Daddy "account in full for the year. Thank you We still need to pay our other vendor, Sparklit and plan on a continuation of the funding drive starting this weekend and intend to cut it off when we get to 1 year @ $17.98/month prepaid. We will turn on Commu...
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JFT May 09, 2018 Write about it!
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Write about it!Page 135 "We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing." Basic Text, p. 30 When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all out on...
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JFT May 07, 2018 Turning turmoil into peace
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Turning turmoil into peacePage 133 "With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am." Basic Text, p. 145 Some days it doesn't pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our ad...
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JFT May 06, 2018 Are we having fun yet?
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Are we having fun yet?Page 132 "In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery." Basic Text, p. 56 Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would pro...
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JFT May 04, 2018 "What about the newcomer?"
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"What about the newcomer?"Page 130 "Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry the message to the addict who still suffers." Tradition Five Our home group means a lot to us. After all, where would we be without our favorite NA meeting? Our group sometimes sponsors picnics or other activities. O...
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MIP Funding drive
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KennyFenderjazz Hi everyone the bills to cover the operations of the MIP Boards are again due I have established a pay pal account to receive funds for the Go Daddy bill of: $187.05 and urge all to contribute . Remember a contribution of as little as $5.-- helps. Please note MIP contribution...
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JFT May 03, 2018 Sharing our gratitude
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Sharing our gratitudePage 129 "My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way." Gratitude Prayer The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude aren't limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ab...
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JFT May 02, 2018 "Just maybe...."
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"Just maybe...."Page 128 "There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles." Basic Text, p. 18 When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles u...
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JFT April 30, 2018 God does for us
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God does for usPage 124 "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 How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves"? At times we may ge...
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Jft April 29th what if
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"What if...."Page 123 "Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power." Basic Text, p. 94 In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a re...
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JFT April 27, 2018 Recognizing and releasing resentments
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Recognizing and releasing resentmentsPage 121 "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 Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, think...
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JFT April 26, 2018 Self-acceptance
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Self-acceptancePage 120 "The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery." IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance Most of us came to Narcotics Anonymous without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and...
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JFT April 25, 2018 Embracing reality
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Embracing realityPage 119 "Recovery is a reality for us today." Basic Text, p. 101 Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape life's pain by taking drugs, but using o...
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JFT April 24, 2018 Twelve steps of life
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Twelve steps of lifePage 118 "Through abstinence and through working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, our lives have become useful." Basic Text, p. 8 Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, our lives were centered around using. For the most part, we had very little energy left over for jobs,...
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