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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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JFT September 1 Real values
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September 1 Real valuesWe become able to make wise and loving decisions based on principles and ideals that have real value in our lives. Basic Text, p. 105 = Addiction gave us a certain set of values, principles we applied in our lives. You pushed me, one of those values told us, so I pushed back, hard....
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in need of a sponsor
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ppl here know i have fear of leaving home so I don't get out much and was wondering if there was a feamile willing to help in this area via text phone email whatever needs to be done but because of whtI have been going thru I would need to hear you r voice to trust you are who you indeed say you are a spade a dpade y...
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JFT August 31 Gratitude
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August 31 GratitudeHopeless 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 track of how much we...
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LIFE IS GOOD
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GOD CONTINUES TO SHOW UP IN MY LIFE - I TRULY BELEIVE STICKING TO THE BASIC ALWAYS BRING ME TO GRATITUDE - I GO TO MEETINGS, I WORK STEPS, I READ THE LITERATURE - I CONNECT WITH OTHER ADDICTS WHO HAVE FOUND A NEW WAY OF LIFE AND I DO SERVICE TO SHOW MY GRATITUDE. THIS TRULY IS MY LIFE I CLAIM TODAY..PEACE ALWAYS...
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when is okay to call a spade a spade??
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just where do the lines cross when it comes to anonimity if you feel you are unsafe or in fear of someone in your home group which is here for me some know what i have been going thru since "kelli a" has writteh HIS suicide note to jar me into insanity that i have yet to recover from it seems never en...
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nightmares
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its 5am....i keep having this dream of a old women that i robbed from PA when i shooting dope...the day i robbed her she looked into my eyes an told me...."when you meet your maker i hope he remembers all the bad an horrible you have done"...that i night i couldn't keep the money or credit cards...
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Why does my recovery / me being sober make me feel so completely alone?
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I know i haven't posted in a while but I get just as much or more simply by reading the other posts. I've seen several about others being lonely in recovery so I know i am not alone in this but it sure feels like it. I have always been extremely outgoing and very very social until ... well until I wasn't. Which...
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Hi Joe,,
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Amazing,, Joe, is that you in Nepal ?? I was there at The Convention on Top of the World at Nagarkot in 2006 ?? Were you there too ? Your profile pic isnt too clear but the outline looks like my friend Red who Id met there. Then there was Sam. B too, who is now happily settled in China.... Is it so Joe ??
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JFT August 29 Don't look back
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August 29 Don't look back The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Our futures are changed because we dont have to avoid those who we have harmed. As a result... we receive a new freedom that can end isolation. Basic Text, p. 39 = Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full...
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Just Checking In... Anyone else want to?
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Hey all. I felt I needed to come here and check in. and as I was doing this. I thought, just maybe. some of you might want to check in as well. you know... just to say hey..... so, anyways. here I am saying hello. how are you tonight. am doing good. still clean.. . miss being here and saying hi... I am so sorr...
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The Board helps in getting out whats within our heart.
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My name is Munish, and I was addicted to Brown Sugar, Charas, afeem, Pills, cough Syrup etc. I was sent to NA Rehabilitation Centre in Aug 2007, where i spent 2-months. After coming back i remained clean for 1 month more and i was relapsed after 3-months with one of my fellow friends when we were going to a...
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Memorials!
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Todays spiritual message for my family today was based on "memorials".We talked of Washington monument, VietNam Memorial,Lincoln memorial ,Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,etc,,,and the thousands of memorials erected around the world so when people ask in the future 'what was that for&...
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JFT August 30 Doing good, feeling good
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August 30 Doing good, feeling goodWe examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than weve been feeling. Basic Text, p.43 = The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, were most likely to treat others with respect and c...
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JFT August 28 The light of exposure
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August 28 The light of exposureThese defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure. Basic Text, p.32 = The Fifth Step asks us to share our true nature with God, with ourselves, and with another human being. It doesnt encourage us to tell everyone every little secret about ourselves. It doe...
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