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JFT May What about the newcomer
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"Each group has but one primary purposeto carry the message to the addict who still suffers."Tradition FiveOur home group means a lot to us. After all, where would we be without our favorite NA meeting? Our group sometimes sponsors picnics or other activities. Often, home group members get toge...
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Transiiton update and Donation Request
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The transition committee is in the final stages of transitioning the Miracle in Progress, Account from John over to the committee. We have been advised that the chat room and meeting room costs of $149.00 for the year needs to be paid by May 15. The message board bill has already been paid and we are n...
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JFT May 3 Sharing our gratitude
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"My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way."Gratitude PrayerThe longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude aren't limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More fr...
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JFT May 2 Just maybe
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"There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles."Basic Text, p. 18=When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying this program-...
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Update re donations
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Update re donations There will be a slight delay in establishing The "Donation buttons". In the mean time donations can be made directly by going to PayPal.com and send to Kennyfenderjazz@gmail.com. No need to wait for the buttons to be installed
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JFT May 1 Self-worth and service
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"Being involved in service makes me feel worthwhile." When most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous, we had very little self-worth left to salvage. Many members say that they began to develop self-esteem through being of service early in their recovery. Something just short of a miracle occur...
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JFT April 30 God does for us
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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. 99How often have we heard it said in meetings that "God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves"? At times we may get stuck in our recovery...
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Happy New Year Clean and ???
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Just had a thought (no it didn't hurt ) This will be my 37th consecutive New Year's Eve Clean and... Clean and Crazy - some of the time Clean and Serene - much of the time Clean and Free - all of the time! Here's looking forward to another year of 365 One Day at a Time's Clean by the Grace of my Higher Power whom I...
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JFT April 29 What if
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"Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. We learned to take whatever actions are necessary and to leave the results in the hands of our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 94In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us. ...
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JFT April 28 Who really gets better?
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"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change."Basic Text, p. 55=When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldn't stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program...
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JFT April 27 Recognizing and releasing resentments
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"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. 29Many of us had trouble identifying our resentments when we were new in recovery. There we sat with our Fourth Step in front of us, thinking and thinking, finally deciding that we just...
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JFT April 26 Self-acceptance
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"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance=Most of us came to Narcotics Anonymous without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loathed ourselves. ...
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JFT April 25 Embracing reality
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"Recovery is a reality for us today."Basic Text, p. 101Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape life's pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troub...
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JFT April 24 The twelve steps of life
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"Through abstinence and through working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous, our lives have become useful."Basic Text, p. 8=Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, our lives were centered around using. For the most part, we had very little energy left over for jobs, relationships, or other a...
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JFT April 23 A God of our understanding
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"Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean."Basic Text, p. 25=Some of us enter recovery with a working understanding of a Higher Power. For a lot of us, however, "God" is a troublesome word. We may doubt the existence of any sort of Power greater than ourselves. Or we may...
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JFT April 22 Traveling the open road
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"This is our road to spiritual growth."Basic Text, p. 37 When we arrived at our first NA meeting, it looked like the end of the road to many of us. We weren't going to be able to use anymore. We were spiritually bankrupt. Most of us were totally isolated and didnt think we had much to live for. Little di...
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JFT April 20 Detachment
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"Addiction is a family disease, but we could only change ourselves." Many of us come from severely damaged families. At times, the insanity that reigns among our relatives feels overwhelming. Sometimes we feel like packing our bags and moving far, far away.We pray that our family members will j...
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JFT April 19 Footwork
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"So many times, addicts have sought the rewards of hard work without the labor."Basic Text, p. 34=When we first came to NA, some of us wanted everything, and right away. We wanted the serenity, the cars, the happy relationships, the friends, the closeness with our sponsor--all the things other peo...
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JFT April 18 I understand
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"We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."Step SevenOnce we are entirely ready to have our character defects removed, many of us are entirely ready! Ironically, that's when the trouble really starts. The more we struggle to rid ourselves of a particular defect, the stronger that shor...
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JFT April 17 Priority: meetings
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"I initially felt that it would be impossible to attend more than one or two meetings a week. It just wouldn?t fit in with my busy schedule. I later learned that my priorities were [180] degrees reversed. It was the everything else that would have to fit into my meeting schedule." Some of us attended...
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JFT April 16 Acting "as if"
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"Today, we seek solutions, not problems. We try what we have learned on an experimental basis."Basic Text, p. 58=The first time we heard that we should "act as if," many of us exclaimed, "But that's not honest! I thought we were always supposed to be honest about our feelings in Narcotics Anonymous...
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JFT April 15 Keep coming back
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"We have come to enjoy living clean and want more of the good things that the NA Fellowship holds for us."Basic Text, p. 27 Can you remember a time when you looked at the addicts recovering in NA and wondered, "If they aren't using drugs, what on earth do they have to laugh about?" Did you believe that th...
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JFT April 14 A new vision
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"Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear?"Basic Text, p. 34=Why do we call them shortcomings? Perhaps they should be called "long-goings," because that's often what it takes for them to fade from our lives. Some of us feel that our shortcomings are the very characteristi...
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JFT April 13 People pleasing
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"...approval-seeking behavior carried us further into our addiction..."Basic Text, p. 14=When others approve of what we do or say, we feel good; when they disapprove, we feel bad. Their opinions of us, and how those opinions make us feel, can have positive value. By making us feel good about stee...
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JFT April 12 The big picture
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All spiritual awakenings have some things in common. Common elements include an end to loneliness and a sense of direction in our lives.Basic Text, p. 50=Some kinds of spiritual experiences take place when we confront something larger than we are. We suspect that forces beyond our understandin...
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JFT April 11 A closed mind
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"A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind...Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives."Basic Text, p. 96We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives. We'd just about run out of ideas. What we needed most when we got here were new ideas, new ways of liv...
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JFT April 10 Too busy
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"We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean."Basic Text, p. 85After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to forget what our most important priority is. Once a week or less we say, "I've gotta get to a meeting tonight. It's been..." We've be...
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JFT April 9 Acting out
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"We learn to experience feelings and realize they can do us no harm unless we act on them."IP No. 16, For the NewcomerMany of us came to Narcotics Anonymous with something less than an overwhelming desire to stop using. Sure, the drugs were causing us problems, and we wanted to be rid of the problems,...
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JFT April 8 Happiness
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"We come to know happiness, joy, and freedom."Basic Text, p. 91If someone stopped you on the street today and asked if you were happy, what would you say? "Well, gee, let's see...I have a place to live, food in the refrigerator, a job, my car is running...Well, yes, I guess I'm happy,' you might respo...
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JFT April 7 The value of the past
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"This firsthand experience in all phases of illness and recovery is of unparalleled therapeutic value. We are here to share it freely with any addict who wants to recover."Basic Text, p. 10 Most of us came into the program with some serious regrets. We had never finished high school, or we had misse...
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