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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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JFT July 12, 2018 Patience
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PatiencePage 202 "We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us." Basic Text, p. 25 "I want what I want, and I want it now!" That's about as patient as most of us ever got in our active addiction. The obsession and compulsion of our disease gave us a "one-track" way of think...
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Something Special JFT
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JUST FOR TODAY I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for 12 hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that Most folks are as happy a...
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JFT July 11, 2018 Encouragement
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EncouragementPage 201 "We share comfort and encouragement with others." Basic Text, p. 99 Many of us have watched as babies take their first steps. The mother holds the child on its feet. The father kneels nearby with outstretched arms, encouraging the little one, his face flooded with devotion. T...
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JFT July 10, 2018 A positive attitude
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A positive attitudePage 200 "That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went." Basic Text, p. 137 A negative attitude is the trademark of active addiction. Everything that occurred in our lives was someone or something else's fault. We had blaming others for our shortcomings down to a fin...
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JFT July 09, 2018 We do recover!
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We do recover!Page 199 "...the time has come when that tired old lie, 'Once an addict, always an addict,' will no longer be tolerated by either society or the addict himself. We do recover." Basic Text, p. 89 From time to time, we hear speakers share that they don't really understand spiritual princip...
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JFT July 08, 2018 The "g" word
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July 08, 2018The "g" wordPage 198 "It is important for you to know that you will hear God mentioned at NA meetings. What we are referring to is a Power greater than ourselves that makes possible what seems impossible." IP No. 22, Welcome to NA Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with a variety of prec...
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JFT July 06, 2018 "I'm sorry"
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Sorry I've been away, don't know how long i can keep posting... "I'm sorry"Page 196 "The main thing [the Eighth Step] does for us is to help build awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people." Basic Text, p. 39 To say "I'm sorry" proba...
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JFT July 03, 2018 Quiet time
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Quiet timePage 193 "Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power." Basic Text, p. 95 Most of us pay lip-service to the value of conscious contact with a Higher Power. Yet how many of us consistently take time to improve th...
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JFT July 02, 2018 Comparing
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ComparingPage 192 "Our personal stories may vary in individual pattern, but in the end we all have the same thing in common." Basic Text, p. 87 We addicts are a varied bunch, coming from different backgrounds, having used different drugs, and recalling different experiences. Our differences don'...
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JFT July 01, 2018 A simple program
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A simple programPage 191 "The program is simply sharing, working the Twelve Steps, attending meetings, and practicing the principles of the program." Our complicated lives can be made a lot less complicated if we concentrate on a few simple things - sharing our experience, strength, and hope with...
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JFT June 29, 2018 Keeping recovery fresh
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Keeping recovery freshPage 187 "Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases." Basic Text, p. 84 After the first couple of years in recovery, most of us start to feel like there are no more big deals. If we've been dilig...
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JFT June 28, 2018 Group conscience
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Group consciencePage 186 "Working with others is only the beginning of service work." Basic Text, p. 59 Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at ourselves a...
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JFT June 27, 2018 Change and growth
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Change and growthPage 185 "When someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive. There will always be room for growth." Basic Text, p. 36 Recovery is a process that brings about change in our lives. We need that change if we are to continue our growth toward freedom. It's importa...
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JFT June 26, 2018 Surrendering self-will
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Surrendering self-will Page 184"Our fears are lessened and faith begins to grow as we learn the true meaning of surrender. We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression."Basic Text, p. 27Surrender is the beginning of a new way of life. When driven primarily by self-will, w...
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