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JFT September 12 New horizons
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September 12 New horizonsMy life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. = Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit usi...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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September 11 Bend with the windWe 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. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more in...
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COMFORT
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'The comfort God has given us,He wants us all to share .....with others, who,with broken hearts,are caught in deep despair.Take a moment to thank God for another day clean and free from the devastation of addiction, practiced by applying the spiritual principles of our program Narcotics Anonymo...
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you can be clean yet very very sick....
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Hi everyone and I hope your LAbor Day weekend was a good one for everyone! I have not been here for awhile . Or to any other meeting, done any step work or even read my daily books.....Im sick. ALL of my old bad habits have resurfaced , yet I have not used. I know in my head that if I did not go to an addictionolog...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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September 10 More powerful than wordsWe 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 feel better?...
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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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September 9 Feet of clayOne of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others. Basic Text, p. 82 = Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may see...
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i screwed up
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went for work ended up at a bar that a friend goes that i knew 2 years agi when the doctor stuff was at it's worst so here i am again hung over what was i thinking??? i kknew i didn't need to be there but i wanted him to see i got my shit together god was i wrong hang over from hell still feeling the martinis so tomor...
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He went back .....again
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After over a year clean as soon as he did his sentence. He's back at it again. And I can't do this anymore. I hate him for this, he doesn't even try.... I can't believe after all these years, he's not tired of throwing away all that money, that he hasn't found any joy in a sober life, in a sober life with me....
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meeting update
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sinceI just screwed up let me consult with my sponser on what she thinks about service work atm we may have to put it off for a bit but I also think she might think jumping in might help so I will keep you updated
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laugh to lighten the load
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A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic Garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped, and every once in Awhile, a $20 bill fell out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a Policeman stopped her, and said, "Ma'am, there are $20 Bills falling Out of th...
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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September 8 RebellionWe need not lose faith when we become rebellious. Basic Text, p. 35 = Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts. A...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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September 7 Resentment and forgivenessWhere there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness. Basic Text, p. 12 = In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, t...
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Who really gets it?
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I try really hard not to take other peoples inventories... However, I am not blind to what I see in the people who go to the meetings I attend. I wondered often how some come to the fellowship, stay clean, and continue to struggle with the most basic parts of the program... I know some are sicker than other...
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Shock !!!
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I got a shock this morning on learning that my home group voted against me in an election. Fate is the same, whether on the outside or within NA. My home group had a business meeting on Friday. I wasnt even informed. Then they took a vote on elections to Regional Delagate alternate post. I had submitted my...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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September 6 Regular meeting attendanceWe 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 attendance. For the ne...
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JFT September 4 Cluttered spirits
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September 4 Cluttered spiritsWe 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 dont need. Were carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpressed remorse. It...
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I am willing to start a weekly meeting
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talked with Vini I have been given approval to start a meeting would like input on which night would ya'll lke to start this weekly meeting so I guess I am trying to ask for a group councious
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labor day
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I hope each and everyone of you of the Miracles In Progress Family have a fun and safe Labor Day! With Love, Rose and John
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taking resonibility for my own shit
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things have been rough but /Iam parcally a part of that I let fear consume me and instead of facing it and recoverin I ran welll running is getting me no where so I need to take resposibility for my part I did not pput effort into any type of recvory sure I posted and I can tell the difference in the days that...
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JFT September 5 Not hopelessly bad
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September 5 Not hopelessly badWe find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad. Basic Text, p. 16 = For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered?...
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HEADING SOUTH ,AND MAN CAN'T WAIT!!!
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sEPTEMBER 10TH THRU SEPT 20TH ,MY WIFE AND i WILL BE IN dEERFIELD bEACH Florida for some well needed downtime from the onslaught of "life kicking away..We will be about 30 miles North of Miami.I have located 3 different meeting places in Pompano,Boca Raton and Deerfield(in a pavillion on the oc...
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JFT September 3 Humility expressed by anonymity
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September 3 Humility expressed by anonymityHumility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts. Basic Text, pp. 75-76 = Many of us may not have understood the idea that anonymi...
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Election guidelines !
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Hi all, Im certain that many of us here have served in various elected positions in NA, whether at group, area, regional or world level. Elections usually happen through group conscience and would reflect candidate choices. Canditaes put in their resumes at the appropriate body; therefore for a gr...
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JFT September 2 Higher powered
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September 2 Higher PoweredDaily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 86 = Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonym...
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what to do if your faith is lost?
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I have had a really rough year and ahalf many attempts on my own life and just drama everywhere Igo it follows today I saw the one promise my HP has given that I can actually see the rainbow so why is it so hard to surrender to him/her the doctors gave me a year to two years cause of myt copd then my primary care...
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aggitated
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ok I am the kinda pewrson that would give the shirt off my own back to help some ome I like to make ppl happy thenI got to thinking " Am I trying to buy friendship with material things" which leaves me broke in the process I WANT A REAL FRIEND ONE i CAN GO TO THIER HOUSE SIT AND VENT AND FOR THEM TO AC...
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add your favorit na slogan
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groovy things heard in na meetings Meeting makers make it We learn the program wont work if we adapt the program to our lives we must adapt our lives to the program One disease,one sponsor,one program,one fellowship More will be revealed When in doubt take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mo...
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Trying to reach out
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Hi everyone, I am new here and quite a bit scared. I was taken to the ER due to severe withdrawal, was detoxed for 4 days at a detox center (whatever you call them) and now out on IOPC. I wanted desperately for there to be a meeting tonight, I feel alone. So far I have "confessed" to a number of peo...
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great day
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today was amazing...i spent the day with my amazing girlfriend..we went to the freehold mall and walked around...we went to fye and i had money to but cds...it felt great knowing i had money tht wasent going towards the next fix....then we went to jhonny rockets for dinner then to the movies to see the o...
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NA CONVENTION IN ALASKA 2010
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LOVE TO INVITE ALL TO OUR NA CONVENTION OCT. 1 -3 - IT'S GOING TO BE A BLAST!!!
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