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JFT January 15 Fear
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We grow to feel comfortable with our Higher Power as a source of strength. As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life. Basic Text, p. 25 = Powerless as we are, living on self-will is a frightening, unmanageable experience. In recovery, we have turned our will and our lives s...
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JFT January 14 A loving God
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Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. Basic Text, p. 24 = We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than ourselves...
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JFT January 13 Surrender to win
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Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. Basic Text, p. 22 = Complete defeat--what a concept! That must mean surrender. Surrender--to give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hand at our first m...
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JFT January 12 Spiritual awakenings
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps... Step Twelve = How will I know when I have had a spiritual awakening? For many of us, a spiritual awakening comes gradually. Perhaps our first spiritual awareness is as simple as a new appreciation for life. Maybe one day well suddenly...
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JFT January 11 Faith
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As we develop faith in our daily lives, we find that our Higher Power supplies us with the strength and guidance that we need. Basic Text, p. 94 = Some of us come into recovery very frightened and insecure. We feel weak and alone. We are uncertain of our direction and dont know where to go for answers. ...
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Oldtimer goes out... ReEntry and *
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Hi. I had...yes HAD 23yrs. I don't consider the last 3yrs anything but relaxed and casual white knuckling it. But for many many years I was VERY active. Started meetings, chaired, sponsored, had a sponsor... So I now have 18 months and I am a little tired of the repeated stories of long term clean time n...
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JFT January 10 Gratitude
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I'm very grateful to have come to believe. IP No. 21, The Loner = Belief in a Higher Power can make all the difference when the going gets tough! When things don't go our way in recovery, our sponsor may direct us to make a gratitude list. When we do, we should include our faith in a Power greater than o...
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JFT January 9 Returning our sponsor's kindness
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Our earliest involvements with others often begin with our sponsor. Basic Text, p. 57 = Our sponsors can be abundant sources of recovery information, wisdom, and loving words. They've done so much for us. From the late night telephone calls to the hours spent listening to our recovery writing...
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I hate that I'm still an addict after 20 years
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Happy New Year everyone! As I head into 2015 and grasp at the threads of prosperity in the knowledge that I will finally graduate after four long years of part-time studies while working 2-3 jobs, I still find myself burdened with negative thoughts about how my addiction/recovery will continue to im...
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JFT January 8 Growing up
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Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that offers unlimited growth. Basic Text, p. 44 = When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say that they've grown up in NA. Well, then, we think, what does that mean? We start to wonder if were grownups...
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JFT January 7 "Recovery"
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Narcotics Anonymous offers addicts a program of recovery that is more than just a life without drugs. Not only is this way of life better than the hell we lived, it is better than any life that we have ever known. Basic Text, p. 107 = Few of us have any interest in recovering what we had before we started...
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JFT January 6 "How does it work?"
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I used to think that I had all the answers, but today I am glad that I don't. = What are the two favorite words of most addicts? I know! Unfortunately, many of us arrive in NA thinking we have all the answers. We have a lot of knowledge about whats wrong with us. But in and of itself, knowledge never...
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JFT January 5 Recovery at home
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We can enjoy our families in a new way and may become a credit to them instead of an embarrassment or a burden. Basic Text, p. 104 = Were doing great in recovery, aren't we? We go to a meeting every day, we spend every evening with our friends in the fellowship, and every weekend we dash off to a service wo...
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JFT January 4 The love of the fellowship
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Today, secure in the love of the fellowship, we can finally look another human being in the eye and be grateful for who we are. Basic Text, p. 92 = When we were using, few of us could tolerate looking someone in the eye--we were ashamed of who we were. Our minds were not occupied with anything decent or h...
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JFT January 3 Our greatest need
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We eventually redefine our beliefs and understanding to the point where we see that our greatest need is for knowledge of God's will for us and the strength to carry that out. Basic Text, p. 48 = When we first arrived in NA, we had all kinds of ideas of what we needed. Some of us set our sights on amassing...
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JFT January 2 Take a deep breath and talk to God
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Sometimes when we pray, a remarkable thing happens: We find the means, ways, and energies to perform tasks far beyond our capacities. Basic Text, p. 46 = Coping successfully with life's minor annoyances and frustrations is sometimes the most difficult skill we have to learn in recovery. We are...
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Happy New Year Clean & Serene
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As I sit here on the 3rd floor lanai of the Condo we're renting over looking the Pacific it's soon approaching midnight on the Big Island. It's already 2015 where I was at home this morning. Long tiring day. A good day. Another Clean day. Besides being the beginning of our first vacation in 8 years since l...
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JFT December 31 Being of service
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Working with others is only the beginning of service work. Basic Text, p. 59 = We're in recovery now. Through living the program, we've attained some stability in our lives. Our faith in a Higher Power has grown. Our individual spiritual awakening is progressing comfortably. So now what? Do...
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JFT December 3- Action and prayer
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...growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer. Basic Text, p. 37 = Sometimes it seems as if our recovery is growing much too slowly. We struggle with the steps; we wrestle with the same problems; we labor under the same uncomfortable feelings day after day. We wish that recovery wo...
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JFT December 29 Through each others' eyes
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When someone points out a shortcoming, our first reaction may be defensive.... [But] if we truly want to be free, we will take a good look at input from fellow addicts. Basic Text, p. 36 = At some point in our recovery, we come to the awkward realization that the way we see ourselves is not necessarily...
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JFT December 27 God could restore us to sanity
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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 = Now that weve finally admitted our insanity and seen examples of it in all its manifestations, we might be tempted to believe that we are doomed to repeat this behavio...
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JFT December 26 Never-failing Power
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As we learn to trust this Power, we begin to overcome our fear of life. Basic Text, p. 25 = We are people accustomed to placing all our eggs in one basket. Many of us had one particular drug of choice that was our favorite. We relied on it to get us through each day and make life bearable. We were faithfu...
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JFT December 25 Anonymity and self-will
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"The drive for personal gain... which brought so much pain in the past falls by the wayside if we adhere to the principle of anonymity." Basic Text, p. 76 = The word anonymity itself means namelessness, but there's a larger principle at work in the anonymity of the NA program: the pri...
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas to all members , and have a good night .
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JFT December 24 The group
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The Twelfth Step of our personal program also says that we carry the message to the addict who still suffers. The group is the most powerful vehicle we have for carrying the message. Basic Text, p. 68 = When we first come to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, we meet recovering addicts. We know they are...
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JFT December 23 New ideas
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We reevaluate our old ideas so we can become acquainted with the new ideas that lead to a new way of life. Basic Text, p. 94 = Learning to live a new way of life can be difficult. Sometimes, when the going gets especially hard, were tempted to follow the path of least resistance and live by our old ideas a...
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JFT December 22 A new way to live
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"When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma....Either go on as best we can to the bitter ends--jails, institutions, or death--or find a new way to live." Basic Text, p. 87 = What was the worst as...
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JFT December 21 Acceptance and change
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Freedom to change seems to come after acceptance of ourselves. Basic Text, p. 58 = Fear and denial are the opposites of acceptance. None of us are perfect, even in our own eyes; all of us have certain traits that, given the chance, we would like to change. We sometimes become overwhelmed when conte...
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JFT December 20 Overcoming self-obsession
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In living the steps, we begin to let go of our self-obsession. Basic Text, p. 97 = Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was t...
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JFT December 19 Walking the way we talk
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Words mean nothing until we put them into action. Basic Text, p. 58 = The Twelfth Step reminds us "to practice these principles in all our affairs." In NA, we see living examples of this suggestion all around us. The more experienced members, who seem to have an aura of peace surroundi...
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