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Dave R · Dave R

It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 91 = There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all...

Dave R · Dave R

"Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, "May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?'"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless were in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forget how trul...

Dave R · Dave R

"I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful."=The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us is--and the less it matters. Kno...

Dave R · Dave R

"Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word "humbly" ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us."Basic Text, p. 95=It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction, w...

Dave R · Dave R

"...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another."Basic Text, p. 105=Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...

Dave R · Dave R

"We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?"Basic Text, p. 88=Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that we might scare...

Dave R · Dave R

"It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt."Basic Text, p. 56=For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and there's no end in sight?Most of us know what it'...

Dave R · Dave R

"God helps us as we help each other."Basic Text, p. 52=Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayers--if we prayed at all--were self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didn't want to live with the problems wed c...

Dave R · Dave R

"Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 99=Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world. But the step...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on life's terms without the use of drugs isn't always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of cour...

Dave R · Dave R

"Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future."Basic Text, pp. 94=Thoughts of how bad it was--or could be--can consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it was--or could be--can divert us from taking action in the real world. That's why, in Nar...

Dave R · Dave R

"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking people's inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your cowo...

BigV · BigV

Wandering the globe>? no Lost in a maze? almost Comatose? nearly well im still alive thats all i know good to see a few of you still hanging around. Im doing the Hep C harvoni right now its gotten rough and I had the Ablation done on my heart about 3 months ago so its been a roller coaster. I'll be back lat...

Dave R · Dave R

"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."Basic Text, p. 29=For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The...

Dave R · Dave R

"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject u...

Dave R · Dave R

"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve="Principles before personalities." Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these wo...

Dave R · Dave R

We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better.Basic Text, p. 91=The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Narc...

Dave R · Dave R

By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power.Basic Text, p. 44=When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didn't, we felt vulne...

Dave R · Dave R

Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life.Basic Text, p. 45=In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We...

Eschia · Eschia

Hi All, I'm new to this particular site but not to NA. This site seems a bit inactive unless I'm doing something wrong. In the forum stats, it says there were 152 member views today alone and yet I don't see any posts for today. Is that common here? If so, I may choose a more active NA message board. Thanks al...

Dave R · Dave R

...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us.Basic Text, p. 88=In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or l...

Dave R · Dave R

Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind.Basic Text, p. 87=What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room togeth...

Dave R · Dave R

Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth.Basic Text, p. 94=Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was tha...

Dave R · Dave R

...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Step Eleven=How do we pray? With little experience, many of us don't even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated.We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction...

Dave R · Dave R

We did not choose to become addicts.Basic Text, p. 3=When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families, and a future o...

Dave R · Dave R

With the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness.=Addiction is a lonely disease. We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones. Many of us are driven to Narcotics Anonymous by a despe...

Dave R · Dave R

Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person.Basic Text, p. 104=Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. After all, we th...

Dave R · Dave R

"When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view...We no longer have to be right all the time."Basic Text, p. 58=Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Insecure, we pretend to b...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our best thinking got us into trouble...Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55 = In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understand that the world's c...

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	JFT November 9 The best-laid plans (Preview) It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 91 = There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all...	Dave R	2	437	Nov 9, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 8 Freed from insanity (Preview) "Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, "May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?'"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless were in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forget how trul...	Dave R	1	401	Nov 8, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 7 Feeling God's will (Preview) "I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful."=The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us is--and the less it matters. Kno...	Dave R	1	400	Nov 7, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 6 Understanding humility (Preview) "Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word "humbly" ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose...	Dave R	1	362	Nov 6, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 5 God's guidance (Preview) "Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us."Basic Text, p. 95=It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction, w...	Dave R	1	372	Nov 5, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 4 Exchaning love (Preview) "...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another."Basic Text, p. 105=Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...	Dave R	1	398	Nov 4, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 3 No matter what (Preview) "We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?"Basic Text, p. 88=Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that we might scare...	Dave R	1	351	Nov 3, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems (Preview) "It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt."Basic Text, p. 56=For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and there's no end in sight?Most of us know what it'...	Dave R	1	369	Nov 2, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT November 1 Awakening (Preview) "God helps us as we help each other."Basic Text, p. 52=Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayers--if we prayed at all--were self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didn't want to live with the problems wed c...	Dave R	1	353	Nov 1, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 31 Our relationship with our higher power (Preview) "Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves."Basic Text, p. 99=Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world. But the step...	Dave R	1	388	Oct 31, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 30 Courage (Preview) "Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future."Basic Text, p. 96=Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on life's terms without the use of drugs isn't always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of cour...	Dave R	1	407	Oct 30, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 29 Living in the now (Preview) "Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future."Basic Text, pp. 94=Thoughts of how bad it was--or could be--can consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it was--or could be--can divert us from taking action in the real world. That's why, in Nar...	Dave R	1	356	Oct 29, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 28 Attitudes (Preview) "We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking people's inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your cowo...	Dave R	1	387	Oct 28, 2017 by Dave R
	HEY where have i been lol (Preview) Wandering the globe>? no Lost in a maze? almost Comatose? nearly well im still alive thats all i know good to see a few of you still hanging around. Im doing the Hep C harvoni right now its gotten rough and I had the Ablation done on my heart about 3 months ago so its been a roller coaster. I'll be back lat...	BigV	2	288	Oct 27, 2017 by MIKEF
	JFT October 27 Living in the present (Preview) "We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."Basic Text, p. 29=For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The...	Dave R	1	325	Oct 27, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance (Preview) "The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject u...	Dave R	1	387	Oct 26, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 25 Principles before personalities (Preview) "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."Tradition Twelve="Principles before personalities." Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these wo...	Dave R	1	339	Oct 25, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 24 Responsibility (Preview) We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better.Basic Text, p. 91=The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Narc...	Dave R	1	333	Oct 24, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 23 Surrender (Preview) By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power.Basic Text, p. 44=When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didn't, we felt vulne...	Dave R	1	387	Oct 23, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 20 Freedom to choose (Preview) Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life.Basic Text, p. 45=In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We...	Dave R	1	1522	Oct 20, 2017 by Dave R
	New to NA (this site) (Preview) Hi All, I'm new to this particular site but not to NA. This site seems a bit inactive unless I'm doing something wrong. In the forum stats, it says there were 152 member views today alone and yet I don't see any posts for today. Is that common here? If so, I may choose a more active NA message board. Thanks al...	Eschia	6	327	Oct 19, 2017 by Davethewave
	JFT October 19 Standing for something (Preview) ...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us.Basic Text, p. 88=In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or l...	Dave R	1	447	Oct 19, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 18 We all belong (Preview) Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind.Basic Text, p. 87=What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room togeth...	Dave R	1	381	Oct 18, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 17 The "truth" (Preview) Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth.Basic Text, p. 94=Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was tha...	Dave R	1	413	Oct 17, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 16 The simplest prayer (Preview) ...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Step Eleven=How do we pray? With little experience, many of us don't even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated.We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction...	Dave R	1	430	Oct 16, 2017 by Dave R
	JFt October 15 Choices (Preview) We did not choose to become addicts.Basic Text, p. 3=When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families, and a future o...	Dave R	1	487	Oct 15, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 14 The end of loneliness (Preview) With the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness.=Addiction is a lonely disease. We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones. Many of us are driven to Narcotics Anonymous by a despe...	Dave R	1	351	Oct 14, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 13 Making a difference (Preview) Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person.Basic Text, p. 104=Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. After all, we th...	Dave R	1	495	Oct 13, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 12 Being right (Preview) "When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view...We no longer have to be right all the time."Basic Text, p. 58=Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Insecure, we pretend to b...	Dave R	1	377	Oct 12, 2017 by Dave R
	JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes (Preview) "Our best thinking got us into trouble...Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55 = In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understand that the world's c...	Dave R	1	528	Oct 11, 2017 by Dave R
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