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JFT March 26, 2018 Trusting a sponsor - worth the risk
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Trusting a sponsor - worth the riskPage 88 "In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate ..." IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without direction, relying only on...
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JFT March 25, 2018 I can't, but we can
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I can't, but we canPage 87 "From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond... Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery..." Basic Text, p. 98 Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it alone-that was the c...
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JFT March 24, 2018 Letting go of the past
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Letting go of the pastPage 86 "It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going." Basic Text, p. 23 When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves "addicts" In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to find new meaning in our lives...
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Just for Today March 23, 2018 God's gifts
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God's giftsPage 85 "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a daily basis." Basic Text, p. 47 Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We know that we a...
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Just for today March 22 The principle of self-support
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The principle of self-supportPage 84 "In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves." Basic Text, pp. 70-71 In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is called a leech...
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JFT 3.21.2018
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March 21, 2018A treatable illnessPage 83 "Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs." Basic Text, p. 3 At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, "Disease? I've...
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JFT 3.20 Higher Power
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March 20, 2018Higher PowerPage 82 "Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction." Basic T...
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Looking for online sponsor
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Hey all, I'm new to this message board. I'm looking for a sponsor who can guide me through the steps. I have been to NA here and there but recently have been doing bad. Hopefully we can talk via email. Please let me know if anyone can help.
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JFT February 27 Pure motives
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"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that weve been doing better than weve been feeling."Basic Text, p. 43=Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back, g...
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JFT February 24 A new influence
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"Personality change was what we really needed. Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary."Basic Text, p. 15=In early life, most of us were capable of joy and wonder, of giving and receiving unconditional love. When we started using, we introduced an influence into our li...
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JFT February 23 Messages and messengers
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"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve=The Twelfth Tradition reminds us of the importance of putting principles before personalities. In recovery meetings, this might be paraphrased, "do...
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JFT February 21 Self-pity or recovery, it's our choice
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"Self-pity is one of the most destructive of defects; it will drain us of all positive energy."Basic Text, p. 80=In active addiction, many of us used self-pity as a survival mechanism. We didn't believe there was an alternative to living in our disease--or perhaps we didn't want to beli...
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JFT February 19 Reservations
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"Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program."Basic Text, p. 79=A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will b...
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JFT February 18 The recovery partnership
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"As long as I take it easy and make a commitment with my Higher Power to do the best I can, I know I will be taken care of today." Many of us feel that our fundamental commitment in recovery is to our Higher Power. Knowing that we lack the power to stay clean and find recovery on our own, we enter into a partne...
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JFT February 17 Carrying the message, not the addict
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"They can be analyzed, counseled, reasoned with, prayed over, threatened, beaten, or locked up, but they will not stop until they want to stop."Basic Text, p. 65=Perhaps one of the most difficult truths we must face in our recovery is that we are as powerless over another's addiction as w...
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JFT February 16 Faithful feelings
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When we refuse to accept the reality of today, we are denying faith in our Higher Power. This can only bring more suffering. IP No. 8, Just for Today = Some days just arent the way we wish they would be. Our problems may be as simple as a broken shoelace or having to stand in line at the supermarket. Or...
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JFT February 15 An awakening of the spirit
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February 15An awakening of the spiritThe last thing we expected was an awakening of the spirit.Basic Text, p. 49=Few of us came to our first Narcotics Anonymous meeting aching to take a personal inventory or believing that a spiritual void existed in our souls. We had no inkling that we were about to...
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JFT February 13 The ties that bind
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"As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well."Basic Text, p. 60=Many of us feel that without NA we would surely have died from our disease. Hence, its existence is our very lifeline. However, disunity is an occasional fact of...
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JFT February 12 Living in the moment
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"We regretted the past, dreaded the future, and werent too thrilled about the present."Basic Text, p. 7=Until we experience the healing that happens when we work the Twelve Steps, it is doubtful that we can find a statement more true than the quote above. Most of us come to NA hanging our h...
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JFT FEbruary 10 Fun!
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"In recovery, our ideas of fun change."Basic Text, p. 107=In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were rather bizarre. Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local club. We would dance, drink, and do drugs until the sun rose. On more than one occasion...
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JFT February 9 Self-acceptance
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"When we accept ourselves, we can accept others into our lives, unconditionally, probably for the first time."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=From our earliest memories, many of us felt like we never belonged. No matter how big the gathering, we always felt apart from the crowd. We had a...
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JFT February 8 What is a sponsor?
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"an NA sponsor is a member of Narcotics Anonymous, living our program of recovery, who is willing to build a special, supportive, one-on-one relationship with us."IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised=What is a sponsor? You know: That nice person with whom you had coffee after your fir...
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JFT February 7 This is not a test
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...we have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn. Basic Text, p. 27 = Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens and we wail, My Highe...
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JFT February 6 I can't--we can
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We had convinced ourselves that we could make it alone and proceeded to live life on that basis. The results were disastrous and, in the end, each of us had to admit that self-sufficiency was a lie. Basic Text, p. 62 = I can't, but we can. This simple but profound truth applies initially to our first n...
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JFT February 3 We need each other
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"Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion."Basic Text, p. 9=Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different. We didn't need anyone or anything, we thought. There was nothing of value to be found in anyone from a differe...
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JFT February 2 Goodwill
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Goodwill is best exemplified in service; proper service is Doing the right thing for the right reason.Basic Text, p. xv=The spiritual core of our disease is self-centeredness. In dealing with others, the only motive our addiction taught us was selfishnesswe wanted what we wanted when we wanted i...
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JFT February 1 Hardship
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We felt different.... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction. Basic Text, p. 22 But you dont understand! we spluttered, trying to cover up. Im different! Ive really got it rough! We used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to escape t...
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JFT January 31 Trust
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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. 93 Trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldnt trust ourselves. Now that were i...
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JFT January 30 Giving it away
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We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us. Basic Text, p. 49 In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the steps in our liv...
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JFT January 29 The first step: an action step
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Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs? Basic Text, p. 18 = At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no actionwe just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action! The action we take in the First Step will be evident in the way we live, even from...
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