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JFT July 3 Quiet time
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"Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power." Basic Text, p. 95 = Most of us pay lip-service to the value of conscious contact with a Higher Power. Yet how many of us consistently take time to improve that...
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I don't have to do 90 meetings in 90 days
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I am an addict my name is Dave m. Here it is 2:30 AM and I can not sleep. I have been turning over this thought in my head, and I want to share it. In a previous post I revealed that I am recently coming back from a relapse and one of the suggestions I am being given is to do 90 meetings in 90 days. I would like to shar...
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JFT July 2 Comparing
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"Our personal stories may vary in individual pattern, but in the end we all have the same thing in common." Basic Text, p. 87 = We addicts are a varied bunch, coming from different backgrounds, having used different drugs, and recalling different experiences. Our differences don't d...
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JFT July 1 A simple program
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"The program is simply sharing, working the Twelve Steps, attending meetings, and practicing the principles of the program." = Our complicated lives can be made a lot less complicated if we concentrate on a few simple things--sharing our experience, strength, and hope with others...
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JFT June 30 Maintaining the foundation
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"Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future." Basic Text, p. 96 = The foundation of our lives is what the rest of our lives is built upon. When we were using, that foundation affected everything we did. When we decided that recovery was important, that's...
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JFT June 29 Keeping recovery fresh
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"Complacency is the enemy of members with substantial clean time. If we remain complacent for long, the recovery process ceases." Basic Text, p. 84 = After the first couple of years in recovery, most of us start to feel like there are no more big deals. If we've been diligent in working...
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JFT June 28 Group conscience
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"Working with others is only the beginning of service work." Basic Text, p. 59 = Service work calls for a selfless devotion to carrying the message to the still-suffering addict. But our attitude of service cannot stop there. Service also requires that we look at ourselves and our mo...
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JFT June 27 Change and growth
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"When someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive. There will always be room for growth." Basic Text, p. 36 = Recovery is a process that brings about change in our lives. We need that change if we are to continue our growth toward freedom. It's important that...
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JFT June 26 Surrendering self-will
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"Our fears are lessened and faith begins to grow as we learn the true meaning of surrender. We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression." Basic Text, p. 27 = Surrender is the beginning of a new way of life. When driven primarily by self-will, we constantly wo...
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JFT June 25 Not just lucky
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"The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity. The strength to move into action comes from this belief." Basic Text, p. 25 = Coming to believe is a process that stems from personal experience. Each of us has this experience; all addicts who find recovery in NA have solid evide...
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JFT June 24 Tolerance
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"...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." Tradition Twelve = Sometimes it's hard to accept others' character defects. As we recover together, we not only listen to others talk in meetings, we also watch how they walk through their recovery. The more we get t...
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Brand New! Any old timers/familiar recoverers feedbacks welcome
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So, my husband was in denial awhile, I just patiently told him a program, looking into it, with me, wouldnt hurt. 2 weeks later his denial went away, so we began! Ive given him some tasks (as I am 2 yrs sober) ad he's doing quite well, hes worked the 1st few steps almost without knowing (Happens often) I...
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Thinking of all dad's today!
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JFT June 23 Surrender
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"We didn't stumble into this fellowship brimming with love, honesty, open-mindedness, or willingness...When we were beaten, we became willing." Basic Text, p. 20 = Surrender may be the necessary foundation for recovery, but sometimes we fight it. Most of us look back after some c...
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JFT June 21 New levels of honesty
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"We have been experts at self-deception and rationalization." Basic Text, p. 28 = When we come to our first meeting and hear that we must be honest, we may think, "Well now, that shouldn't be too difficult. All I have to do is stop lying." To some of us, this comes easily. We no...
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JFT June 22 Accepting life as it is
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"In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions." Basic Text, p. 90 = Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourse...
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JFT June 20 Meditation for beginners
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"For some, prayer is asking for God's help; meditation is listening for Gods answer.... Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, pp. 46-47 = "Be patient when youre learning to meditate," ma...
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new stage in life
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GETTING OLD, parts wearing out, things not working properly as they did in youth. Now i have Afib, fibrillation of the heart, heart rhythm and heart rate out of syn, high blood pressure i'm on meds for now, several, lotsa tests. Bottom line, no im not a doctor but i can diagnose my own illness, smoking ci...
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JFT June 18 Indirect amends
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"Indirect amends may be necessary where direct ones would be unsafe or endanger other people." Basic Text, p. 41 = When we used, we allowed nothing to stand in the way of that next high. As a result, many of us didn't always know precisely whom we had injured, either financially or emotio...
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JFT June 19 A sense of humor
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"We find that when we lose self-obsession, we are able to understand what it means to be happy, joyous, and free." Basic Text, p. 107 = The laughter in our meetings often surprises the newcomer. As a group, we appreciate the healing that healthy laughter brings. Even if we are deeply tr...
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JFT June 17 Walls
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"Reaching out is the beginning of the struggle that will set us free. It will break down the walls that imprison us." Basic Text, p. 83 = Many of us came to NA emotionally shattered. Years of using people and allowing them to use us had taken their toll on our ability to trust anyone, ourse...
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JFT June 16 Accepting life
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"Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program." Basic Text, p. 95 = It's relatively easy to accept the things we like--it's the things we don't like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and ev...
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New to message board have some questions
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I have been to several meetings. I have two sons who are in recovery. At one point I found a box with several small syringes empty. 3 of the larger ones had a clear liquid in them. What would the clear liquid have been. Thanks for the help
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JFT June 15
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"Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing, or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for the unknown." Basic Text, p. 34 = We have often heard it said that "when the pain of remainin...
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JFT June 14 Maintaining our faith
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"If we maintain our spiritual condition daily, we find it easier to deal with the pain and confusion." Basic Text, p. 95 = When we first began searching for a Power greater than ourselves, many of us got stuck in old beliefs or ideas. These ranged from the fear of a punishing or vengeful Go...
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JFT June 13 A full life
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"The program 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 act...
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JFT June 12 A vision of hope
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"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 a room...
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....some Moderator assistance needed soon......
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. ...me's going to be heading off at the end of the week until ~the end of may. As one of the moderators here,,it's felt good to sweep the floors(spam) and have some of Dave's fine coffee to start the day on most days,, not to mention having some interaction with y'all.John's going to be taking care of thi...
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JFT June 11 Living clean
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"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, thou...
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JFT June 10 Changing motives
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"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 early recov...
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