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JFt October 24 Responsibility
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October 24 ResponsibilityWe are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better. Basic Text, p. 91 = The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying t...
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Just want to scream
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Hi family I just need to get this out of my head. I'm working a fourth again and I just finished resentments this morning and all afternoon I can feel the anger levels raising....I am such an addict I want to feel better NOW I know by morning this will have passed and I'll wonder what all the fuss was about bu...
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JFT October 23 Surrender
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October 23 Surrender By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power. Basic Text, p. 44 = When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didnt...
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God's will be done!
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If you would just reflect with me for a moment, my son and his girlfriends baby didn't make it..She was supposedly 6 weeks but we all thought she was farther along.No blood flowing through or heartbeat or movement.Obviously as parents we have mixed emotions.Both kids were on 110/80 mg's respect...
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breath by breath
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my frustration level is high living without a "num" is not easy I wanna pill out just to sleep but knowing how i will feel after is what is keeping things in aspect my life is umanagable need to get a book sponsor suggested can't till the first gonna try to get to a face to face meeting prolly a cou...
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good byes
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I have never been good at good byes and the person that has been staying with the good and the bad times will be departing monday befor the sun is even thinking of coming up but he will be going back to Colorado I am ina asense very grateful he is going but now i will sit in silence again I don't know if that is wh...
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JFT October 22 Look who's talking
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October 22 Look whos talkingOur disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations. Basic Text, p. 83 = Some of us say, My disease is talking to me. Others say, My head wont turn off. Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Lets face it. We suffer from an i...
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JFT October 21 God's will today
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October 21 Gods will todayThis decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery. IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience = Sometimes, we really live the Third Stepand its great!We dont regret the past, we arent afraid of the future, and were generally pl...
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Day Two
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Hello. I have 2 days today. I am a periodic, but i just don't want to do it at all anymore. I don't even really want to do it anymore yet i already am thinking about it. It's almost like there is something in me that wants to make myself feel bad. I can't get the java thing totally set up so i wont be able to g...
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JFT October 20 Freedom to choose
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October 20 Freedom to chooseEnforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life. Basic Text, p. 45 = In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default.We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even...
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oops
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day one all over abgain no justifications no rationalizations i chose to drink I am sorry for the stupid thing i did but i owe only me an apology but i let everyone down I don't know much else to say just wanted to admit my wrong choice
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Family Time
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Morning everyone! Hope this day finds you blessed!! Stopping in to let you know Friday morning,early, we are heading to Rockport ,Massachusetts,(from upstate New York to spend 3 days with my mom and my brother,late birthday celebration for mom,86!!! Very quaint little fishing town right on the wa...
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boundries and new arrangments
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the room mate thing has been talked about he is on the couch and be taking care of himself till he can get back home I set boundries and "rules" sono more drama can be brought for today saw my shrink for the last time took him a cake with a straight jacket and EOD on the cake he was suprised made me fe...
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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October 19 Standing for something...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us. Basic Text, p. 88 = In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families...
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Help and advice please
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I have never posted on one of these boards before but I need some help. My son who is my life (as well as all my kids) is addicted to cocaine he is also an alcoholic. I found out he was using, confronted him on this, we had an intervention with the friends of his that are clean and the friends he has had the lon...
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JFT October 15 Choices
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October 15 Choices We did not choose to become addicts. Basic Text, p. 3 = When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didnt have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families,...
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Find a meeting anywhere in the US by text. FREE
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Hi brothers and sisters, I've created an app to help NA members worldwide. Pay nothing other than what your phone company charges to send and receive texts. Text "NA" followed by your zip code to 484-843-1767 details at www.mytextupdate.com I apologize if this comes off as spam. I create...
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feel like using
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all the frustration having some one aqround who presente them self very different than when I met him he is a complete ass but that was not how he was when we met I angry hurt and frusterated he has no place to go and i am not mean enough to tell him to grt out fml sucidal thoughts are running umuck in my brain s...
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WE DON'T SHOOT OUR WOUNDED
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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IS THAT WE DO CAUSE HARM WHEN WE BASH, BE NON-SUPPORTIVE OR EVEN IGNORE OUR WOUNDED. I HAVE TO OWN - THAT I HAVE DONE THAT - I REALLY HAD TO LOOK AT IT THIS WEEK - SOMEONE CLOSE IS GOING THRU A ROUGH TIME - AND I CAN BE SUPPORTIVE AND LOVING - BUT I SEE OTHERS BEING PRETTY HARSH, AND TIRED OF WAL...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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October 18 We all belongAlthough politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind. Basic Text, p. 87 = What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have s...
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JFT October 17 The truth
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October 17 The Truth Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth. Basic Text, p. 94 = Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth,...
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frustration with self
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Ever since the doc deal I have had a problem with thrust then I open up once again and I'm am not sure what to think or do like inviting a stranger into my home to help someone out why must I be so open? helpful to the point it almost drives me insane in the process I am so used to being alone I must say that things a...
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New guy saying hello
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Just got out of Rehab in Chandler AZ. I am looking for both a sponsor and a NA group. I think I found a few good NA's so I will try them. Quick info.... I was high on everything you could think of in the 70's-80's.. I got clean in 1989 and stayed clean for 16 years....
I then got hooked again on 'H' and been high...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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October 16 The simplest prayer ...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step Eleven = How do we pray? With little experience, many of us dont even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotics Anonymous bec...
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Just for today texts?
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Anyone know how to get the JFT daily reading sent to my cell as a text?
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Trusting in my Higher Powers plan!
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I share this because it has been a concern and I free myself by sharing not only with my God but with the fellowship.(not all things,some are just for my sponsor) As we close our meetings in upstate New York ,taking a moment in reflection of the sick and suffering in and outside of the rooms and to the &q...
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wanting to intergrate
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I have this person who is staying with me and says he is trying to help me by saying I don't need my meds that I deal with things by medicating he says he conquered it without but i don't think he realizes what he is saying or how he is saying it I just wanted to help now I am being yelled at on my bday and this day ha...
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Sick
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I am sorry I havent been on lately,I have been dealing with alot in the past week. Last Sunday I had recieved a call from my cousin in Buffalo,New York stating that I had a double death in the family. The deaths were 3 days apart and then last Monday I had an ovarian cyst burst inside me and cause me an excruit...
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Welp heres how i see it today LOL
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Lifes a bowl of cherrys, with pits, enjoy the cherry and quit bitchin just spit that damn pit out and keep it simple. I'm headed to San Francisco for a few days post up some pics once I get back, I love the architecture there and the food oh my the food everything else should be burned LOLOLOL, bye.
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meeting
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I was there to chair the meeting tonight no one showed I need some willingness to try to get this meeting on its feet but icannot do it alone!
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