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JFT June 13, 2018 A full life
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A full lifePage 171 "The programs works a miracle in our lives...We become free to live." Basic Text, p. 11 Most of us - if we've been in recovery for any length of time at all - have heard some member complaining in a meeting about being terribly overworked, too busy for meetings or sponsorship or other a...
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JFT June 12, 2018 A vision of hope
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A vision of hopePage 170 "Yes, we are a vision of hope..." Basic Text, p. 53 By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing...
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The Spiritual Principle behind Step One
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I just finished my Step One. I love the fact that this Forum exist! I would love to have a discussion on Step One and the Spiritual Principles behind it. I am lucky enough to have low tolerance for pain and suffering. It took me a while to admit that I was an addict. After losing so many jobs and apartments,...
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understanding Step One
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ok I am coming to terms my way is getting me no where but the bad part is I already knew this stuff but now I have to put it back into action yesI am powerless YES unmanagable ok ok I surrenser my will and my life over to the care of Gods as I understand him that wasn't too hard now to I believe could and would if h...
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JFT June 11, 2018 Living clean
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Living cleanPage 169 "As we recover, we gain a new outlook on being clean...Life can become a new adventure for us." Basic Text, p. 91 The using life is not a clean one - no one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, tho...
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JFT June 10, 2018 Changing motives
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Changing motivesPage 168 "When we finally get our own selfish motives out of the way, we begin to find a peace that we never imagined possible." Basic Text, p. 45 As we examine our beliefs, our actions, and our motives in recovery, we'll find that sometimes we do things for the wrong reasons. In our earl...
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JFT June 08, 2018 The only requirement
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The only requirementPage 166 "This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life." IP No. 16, For the Newcomer From time to time we wonder if we're "doing it right" in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings?...
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JFT June 07, 2018 Someone who believes in me
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Someone who believes in mePage 165 "Just for today, I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery." Basic Text, p. 100 Not all of us arrive in NA and automatically stay clean. But if we keep coming back, we find in Narcotics Anonymous the support we need for our reco...
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June 06, 2018 Recovery doesn't happen overnight
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Recovery doesn't happen overnight Page 164"The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous are a progressive recovery process established in our daily living."Basic Text, p. 99After some time in recovery, we may find we are faced with what seem like overwhelming personal problems, angry feelings, and...
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June 04, 2018 Build, don't destroy
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Build, don't destroyPage 162 "Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others." Basic Text, p. 16 Spreading gossip feeds a dark hunger in us. Sometimes we think the only way we can feel good about ourselves is to make someone else look bad by comparison. But the kind of self...
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June 05, 2018 Honest prayer
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Honest prayerPage 163 "Although honesty is difficult to practice, it is most rewarding." Basic Text, p. 96 How difficult we find it to be honest! Many of us come to NA as confused about what really happened in our lives that it sometimes takes months and years to sort it all out. The truth of our history i...
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June 03, 2018 Direct and indirect amends
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Direct and indirect amendsPage 161 "We make our amends to the best of our ability." Basic Text, p. 40 The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long-lasting changes in our attitudes and our behavior - that is, with in...
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Funding update
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Hello all Good News Tanin has turned off the Community fund request on each message Board The Community Funding solicitation. was extremely successful as we received enough to cover. about 20 months at $17.98 per month.We are nos paid up until l April 2019. Thank you all for your generosity...
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JFT June 01, 2018 Keep coming back
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Keep coming backPage 159 "We don't have to be clean when we get here but, after the first meeting, we suggest that newcomers keep coming back and come back clean. We don't have to wait for an overdose or jail sentence to get help from Narcotics Anonymous." Basic Text, pp. 10-11 Very few of us arrive in NA b...
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JFt May 31, 2018 Keep it simple
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Keep it simplePage 156 "We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably." Basic Text, p. 99 Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us who've dodged it for so long. When we stopped u...
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JFT May 30, 2018 Loneliness vs. being alone
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Loneliness vs. being alonePage 156 "Sharing with others keeps us from feeling isolated and alone." Basic Text, p. 85 There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being lonely is a state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. Loneliness is not always a...
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JFT May 29, 2018 Carry me
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Carry mePage 155 "We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us." Basic Text, p. 58 We all have times when it seems as though our lives are falling apart. There are days, or even weeks, when it seems that everything that can go wrong is going wrong. Whether it's the loss of a job, the death of a lo...
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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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