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JFT September 9 Feet of clay
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"One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others." Basic Text, p. 82 = Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almos...
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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"We need not lose faith when we become rebellious." Basic Text, p. 35 = Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts. A thoro...
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JFT September 7 Resentment and forgiveness
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"Where there has been wrong, the program teaches us the spirit of forgiveness." Basic Text, p. 12 = In NA, we begin to interact with the world around us. We no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, the more often we'll find...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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"We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean." Basic Text, p. 9 = The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean i...
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Election of TS
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Hey folks, I'm wondering about the process most groups use for electing Trusted Servants - specifically, is there an order that most groups follow or that world follows? I'm looking for something like the following: 1. read the Trusted Service position description, length of term, clean time re...
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JFT September 4 Cluttered spirits
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"We try to remember that when we make amends we are doing it for ourselves." Basic Text, p. 41 = As long as we still owe amends, our spirits are cluttered with things we don't need. We're carrying the extra load of an apology owed, a resentment held, or unexpressed remorse. It's like havi...
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JFT September 3 Humility expressed by anonymity
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"Humility is a by-product that allows us to grow and develop in an atmosphere of freedom and removes the fear of becoming known by our employers, families, or friends as addicts." Basic Text, pp. 75-76 = Many of us may not have understood the idea that "anonymity is the spiritual fo...
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JFT September 2 Higher powered
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"Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power." Basic Text, p. 86 = Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addi...
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JFT August 31 Gratitude
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"Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed. Our disease has been arrested, and now anything is possible." Basic Text, p. 106 = The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible. Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much weve b...
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JFT August 30 Doing good, feeling good
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"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that we've been doing better than we've been feeling." Basic Text, p.43 = The way we treat others often reveals our own state of being. When we are at peace, we're most likely to treat others with respect and compassion. H...
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JFT August 29 Don't look back
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"The steps offer a big change from a life dominated by guilt and remorse. Our futures are changed because we dont have to avoid those who we have harmed. As a result...we receive a new freedom that can end isolation." Basic Text, p. 39 = Many of us come to Narcotics Anonymous full of regr...
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JFT August 28 The light of experience
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"These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure." Basic Text, p.32 = The Fifth Step asks us to share our true nature with God, with ourselves, and with another human being. It doesn't encourage us to tell everyone every little secret about ourselves. It doesn't ask us to d...
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NA northern ca conventions
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Anyone know when the northern ca convention was in 1990! I got clean that weekend but am not sure of the dates of that convention. Been going with March 28th but to be honest I am not sure and want to know if I should change my clean date.
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JFT August 27 Choosing life
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"Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 = Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every day and every dose. In...
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JFT August 26 Tenth Step inventory
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"We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Step Ten = A daily Tenth Step keeps us on a sound spiritual footing. While each member asks different questions, some questions have been found to be helpful to almost everyone. Two key Tenth Step q...
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JFT August 25 The Ninth Step--reclaiming life
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"We are achieving freedom from the wreckage of our past."Basic Text, p. 42=When we start the Ninth Step, we've reached an exciting stage in our recovery. The damage done in our lives is what led many of us to seek help in the first place. Now, we have a chance to clean up that wreckage, ame...
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JFT August 24 Seeking God's will
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"We learn to be careful of praying for specific things." Basic Text, p. 46 = In our active addiction, we usually did not pray for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out. On the contrary, most of our prayers were for God to get us out of the mess we had made for ourselves. ...
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JFT August 23 Decision-making
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"Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking." Basic Text, p. 90 = Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences. When we were using, our decisions were usually driven by our disease, resulting in self-...
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JFT August 22 Contribution
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"We recognize our spiritual growth when we are able to reach out and help others." Basic Text, p. 58 = To make a difference in the world, to contribute something special, is perhaps the highest aspiration of the human heart. Each one of us, no matter what our personal makeup, has a unique...
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JFT August 21 Friendships
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"Our friendships become deep, and we experience the warmth and caring which results from addicts sharing recovery and a new life." IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with few genuine friends. And most of us arrive without the slightest understandin...
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JFT August 20 Facing death
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Often we have to face some type of crisis during our recovery, such as the death of a loved one... Basic Text, p. 98 = Every life has a beginning and an end. However, when someone we love a great deal reaches the end of their life, we may have a very hard time accepting their sudden, final absence. Our gr...
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JFT August 19 First things first
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"We apply effort to our most obvious problems and let go of the rest. We do the job at hand and, as we progress, new opportunities for improvement present themselves." Basic Text, p. 54 = It's been said that recovery is simple--all we've got to change is everything! That can seem a pret...
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JFT August 17 Tell the truth
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"A symptom of our disease is alienation, and honest sharing will free us to recover." Basic Text, p. 80 = Truth connects us to life while fear, isolation, and dishonesty alienate us from it. As using addicts, we hid as much of the truth about ourselves from as much of the world as we possib...
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JFT August 15 Up or down
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"This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day...This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer." Basic Text, pp. 35-36 = Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its...
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JFT August 18 "How long do I have to go?"
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The way to remain a productive, responsible member of society is to put our recovery first. Basic Text, p. 102 = The meetings have been great! Each night we've attended, we've gathered with other addicts to share experience, strength, and hope. And each day, we've used what weve learned in the me...
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Its that time of year!
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I think this pic says it all
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Looking for English speaking addicts to lead a meeting via SKYPE @ 7:30pm Tues (Pacific time)
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My name is Ben from Pasadena, CA. I secretary a meeting on Tuesday nights @ 7:30pm-9:00pm. I'm having a hard time finding leaders (who qualify for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of the meeting) and I had a great idea...why don't I find leaders from around the country via Skype? I can easily put someone o...
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JFT August 13 Difficult people
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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? First, we take our own inventory. H...
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JFT August 12 Enough!
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"Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough,'and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." = Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to work the First S...
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JFT August 11 Active listening
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"Through active listening, we hear things that work for us." Basic Text, p. 102 = 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 learn to listen active...
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