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JFT May 16 Our higher power's will
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Gods will for us becomes our own true will for ourselves. Basic Text, p. 48 = The Twelve Steps are a path to spiritual awakening. This awakening takes the form of a developing relationship with a loving Higher Power. Each succeeding step strengthens that relationship. As we continue to work the...
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JFT May 15 Fear of the Fourth Step
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As we approach this step, most of us are afraid that there is a monster inside of us that, if released, will destroy us. Basic Text, p. 27 = Most of us are terrified to look at ourselves, to probe our insides. Were afraid that if we examine our actions and motives, well find a bottomless black pit of self...
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JFT May 14 Oops!
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Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Basic Text, p. 23 = Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt at the very least, with frustration and impati...
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JFT May 13 Onward on the journey
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The progression of recovery is a continuous uphill journey. Basic Text, p. 83 = The longer we stay clean, the steeper and narrower our path seems to become. But God doesnt give us more than we can handle. No matter how difficult the road becomes, no matter how narrow, how winding the turns, there i...
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JFT May 12 Living with spiritual experiences
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For meditation to be of value, the results must show in our daily lives. Basic Text, p. 47 = In working our program, we are given many indirect indications of a Higher Powers presence in our lives: the clean feeling that comes to so many of us in taking our Fifth Step; the sense that we are finally on the r...
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JFT May 11 Balancing the scales
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A lot of our chief concerns and major difficulties come from our inexperience with living without drugs. Often when we ask an old-timer what to do, we are amazed at the simplicity of the answer. Basic Text, p. 43 = Finding balance in recovery is quite a bit like sitting down with a set of scales and a pi...
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She asked for help...went to rehab
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So my daughter came clean and went o detox last night. I am so lost
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JFT May 10 Becoming entirely ready
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We... get a good look at what these defects are doing to our lives. We begin to long for freedom from these defects. Basic Text, p. 34 = Becoming entirely ready to have our defects of character removed can be a long process, often taking place over the course of a lifetime. Our state of readiness grow...
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JFT May 9 Write about it!
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"We sit down with a notebook, ask for guidance, pick up our pen, and start writing." Basic Text, p. 30 = When we're confused or in pain, our sponsor sometimes tells us to "write about it." Though we may groan as we drag out the notebook, we know that it will help. By laying it all...
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JFT May 8 Teachable
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We have learned that it is okay to not know all the answers, for then we are teachable and can learn to live our new life successfully. Basic Text, p. 96 = In a way, addiction is a great teacher. And if addiction teaches us nothing else, it will teach us humility. We hear it said that it took our very bes...
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..a sad loss,,,a beautiful step forwards!....
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.....5 years ago,,in the depths of my active addiction,, my front tooth fell out....I was struggling to stay clean,,but felt like this event 'marked' me to addiction.......eventually a dentist put a post in ,,built a tooth,thanks to canada's medicaid funding---I was certainly grateful! ........
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JFT May Turning turmoil into peace
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With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am. Basic Text, p. 145 = Some days it doesnt pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our addiction, we rarely got too distur...
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JFT May 6 Are we having fun yet?
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In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery. Basic Text, p. 56 = Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would probably bolt, perhaps mutter...
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JFT May 5 Any lengths
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...I was ready to go to any lengths to stay clean. Basic Text, p. 132 = Any lengths? newcomers ask. What do you mean, any lengths? Looking back at our active addiction and the lengths we were willing to go to in order to stay high can help to explain. Were we willing to drive many miles to get drugs? Y...
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Running scared
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Hey y'all. I just wanted to ask for some prayers. I'm having surgery today and I'm very scared, nervous, anxious about being put under. I've never been put to sleep on purpose and while clean. What if I don't wake up? What if I bleed out? I hate needles and I hate having an IV. I'm a big weiney when it comes to...
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JFT May 4 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 Five = Our 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 tog...
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JFT Sharing our gratitude
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My gratitude speaks when I care and when I share with others the NA way. Gratitude Prayer = The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude arent 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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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 occu...
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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. 99 = How 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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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 couldnt stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program....
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someone to talk to?
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Is anyone available to chat with me? Chat room is empty :(
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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. 94 = In our active addiction, fear of the future and what might happen was a reality for many of us...
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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. 29 = Many 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 jus...
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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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Why so many AA haters in NA meetings??
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I feel sad when people bag on AA in meetings or say "the other fellowship" I mean c'mon you can't even say the name of our founders? I love AA and am proud of it. I go to AA meetings sometimes but most of my exposure to it is from the Big Book. I participated in a BB study and it was amazing. I could not...
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JFT April 24 Twelve Step 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 re...
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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 werent 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 21 Fear
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We have found that we had no choice except to completely change our old ways of thinking or go back to using. Basic Text, p. 22 = Many of us find that our old ways of thinking were dominated by fear. We were afraid that we wouldnt be able to get our drugs or that there wouldnt be enough. We feared discover...
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