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Dave R · Dave R

The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence. Basic Text, p. 42 = Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...

Dave R · Dave R

We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass. Basic Text, p. 82 = It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. It will pass, a little voice tells you. When? you wonder, as you pace and mutter...

Dave R · Dave R

We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life. Basic Text, p. 37 = Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other peopleespecially people who were not usingat all costs. After years of isolation, trying to...

Dave R · Dave R

Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live. Basic Text, p. 26 = How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we accept that we don...

Sober and clean Rosie · Sober and clean Rosie

Just for today We will learn to accept the NA Traditions. Tradition 8 Pg 188,What is Narcotics Anonymous, after all, but a fellowship of addicts freely sharing with one another the simple message of their own experience. Just for today,we will encourage NA members to feel free to share their own expe...

Dave R · Dave R

When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving. Basic Text, p. 52 = Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold...

Dave R · Dave R

We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human. Basic Text, p. 31 = All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our int...

MIKEF · MIKEF

Morning and blessings of this day! I am an addict named Mike...I take a moment to thank all the men and women I have served with (65-71),those still in theater and those that didn't make it back.Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Bless the families and friends of our warriors... WE have a daily...

Dave R · Dave R

When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us. Basic Text, p. 98 = Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, I...

Dave R · Dave R

We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us. Basic Text, p. 26 = Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....

Dave R · Dave R

No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us. Basic Text, p. 14 = For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse t...

Dave R · Dave R

It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 91 = Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...

Dave R · Dave R

Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident? Basic Text, p. 24 = Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...

Dave R · Dave R

I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. = The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand the less it matters. Knowle...

Dave R · Dave R

Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...

Dave R · Dave R

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 = For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives arent the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The gu...

Dave R · Dave R

Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction, we...

Dave R · Dave R

...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another. Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...

Dave R · Dave R

Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person. Basic Text, p. 104 = Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. After all, we t...

Dave R · Dave R

We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start? Basic Text, p. 88 = Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare s...

Dave R · Dave R

God helps us as we help each other. Basic Text, p. 52 = Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayersif we prayed at allwere self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didnt want to live with the problems wed create...

Dave R · Dave R

It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt. Basic Text, p. 56 = For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and theres no end in sight? Most of us know what its l...

Dave R · Dave R

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 = Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world. But the step...

Dave R · Dave R

Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on lifes terms without the use of drugs isnt always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of courage...

Dave R · Dave R

Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. Basic Text, pp. 94 = Thoughts of how bad it wasor could becan consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it wasor could becan divert us from taking action in the real world. Thats why, in Narcotics Ano...

Dave R · Dave R

We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Basic Text, p. 55 = Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking peoples inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your coworke...

Dave R · Dave R

Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry, disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones. Basic Text, p. 7 = Addiction affected every area of our lives. Just as we...

Dave R · Dave R

The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject us...

Dave R · Dave R

We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better. Basic Text, p. 91 = The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Nar...

Dave R · Dave R

Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life. Basic Text, p. 45 = In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We a...

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	JFT November 18 Self-discovery (Preview) The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence. Basic Text, p. 42 = Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...	Dave R	0	233	Nov 18, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 17 Walking through the pain (Preview) We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass. Basic Text, p. 82 = It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. It will pass, a little voice tells you. When? you wonder, as you pace and mutter...	Dave R	0	215	Nov 17, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 16 Alone no more (Preview) We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life. Basic Text, p. 37 = Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other peopleespecially people who were not usingat all costs. After years of isolation, trying to...	Dave R	0	342	Nov 16, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 15 Letting go (Preview) Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live. Basic Text, p. 26 = How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we accept that we don...	Dave R	1	269	Nov 15, 2013 by BigV
	Just for today (Preview) Just for today We will learn to accept the NA Traditions. Tradition 8 Pg 188,What is Narcotics Anonymous, after all, but a fellowship of addicts freely sharing with one another the simple message of their own experience. Just for today,we will encourage NA members to feel free to share their own expe...	Sober and clean Rosie	8	590	Nov 15, 2013 by lanem
	JFT November 14 Not just surviving (Preview) When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving. Basic Text, p. 52 = Id be better off dead! A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same miserable existence. Our hold...	Dave R	1	221	Nov 14, 2013 by Mike M
	JFT November 13 Not perfect (Preview) We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human. Basic Text, p. 31 = All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ease in our int...	Dave R	0	198	Nov 13, 2013 by Dave R
	The other War (Preview) Morning and blessings of this day! I am an addict named Mike...I take a moment to thank all the men and women I have served with (65-71),those still in theater and those that didn't make it back.Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Bless the families and friends of our warriors... WE have a daily...	MIKEF	1	241	Nov 12, 2013 by avid
	JFT November 12 Our own story (Preview) When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us. Basic Text, p. 98 = Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. Someday, we may think, I...	Dave R	0	211	Nov 12, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance (Preview) We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us. Basic Text, p. 26 = Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....	Dave R	0	245	Nov 11, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 10 Fear or faith? (Preview) No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us. Basic Text, p. 14 = For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a convenient excuse t...	Dave R	0	224	Nov 10, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 9 The best-laid plans (Preview) It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power. Basic Text, p. 91 = Theres an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: If you want to make God laugh, make plans. When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of o...	Dave R	0	215	Nov 9, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 8 Freed from insanity (Preview) Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident? Basic Text, p. 24 = Weve heard it said that unless were in love, we cant remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once were freed of it, we may forget how truly bizar...	Dave R	0	178	Nov 8, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 7 Feeling God's will (Preview) I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what Gods will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. = The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us isand the less it matters. Knowle...	Dave R	0	249	Nov 7, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 6 Understanding humility (Preview) Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves. Basic Text, p. 36 = Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Perhaps we chose to...	Dave R	1	271	Nov 7, 2013 by kitty doyle
	JFT October 27 Living in the present (Preview) 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 = For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives arent the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The gu...	Dave R	1	349	Nov 6, 2013 by karenlucy
	JFT November 5 God's guidance (Preview) Our Higher Power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of Gods will for us. Basic Text, p. 95 = Its not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction, we...	Dave R	0	202	Nov 5, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT November 5 Exchanging love (Preview) ...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another. Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denominator, connecti...	Dave R	0	188	Nov 4, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT October 13 Making a difference (Preview) Words cannot describe the sense of spiritual awareness that we receive when we have given something, no matter how small, to another person. Basic Text, p. 104 = Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. After all, we t...	Dave R	1	272	Nov 4, 2013 by alicenancy
	JFT November 3 No matter what (Preview) We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start? Basic Text, p. 88 = Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that were in recovery its all wonderful. We feel that we might scare s...	Dave R	2	347	Nov 4, 2013 by Mike M
	JFT November 1 Awakening (Preview) God helps us as we help each other. Basic Text, p. 52 = Our addiction caused us to think almost exclusively of ourselves. Even our prayersif we prayed at allwere self-centered. We asked God to fix things for us or get us out of trouble. Why? Because we didnt want to live with the problems wed create...	Dave R	1	201	Nov 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems (Preview) It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt. Basic Text, p. 56 = For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and theres no end in sight? Most of us know what its l...	Dave R	1	223	Nov 2, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT October 31 Our relationship with a Higher Power (Preview) 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 = Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidance for living in the world. But the step...	Dave R	0	195	Oct 31, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT October 30 Courage (Preview) Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future. Basic Text, p. 96 = Narcotics Anonymous is no place for the faint of heart! Facing life on lifes terms without the use of drugs isnt always easy. Recovery requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of courage...	Dave R	0	194	Oct 30, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT October 29 Living in the now (Preview) Living just for today relieves the burden of the past and the fear of the future. Basic Text, pp. 94 = Thoughts of how bad it wasor could becan consume our hopes for recovery. Fantasies of how wonderful it wasor could becan divert us from taking action in the real world. Thats why, in Narcotics Ano...	Dave R	0	179	Oct 29, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT October 28 Attitudes (Preview) We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Basic Text, p. 55 = Ever have a day when everything seems to be working against you? Do you go through periods when you are so busy taking peoples inventories you can barely stand yourself? What about when you find yourself snapping at your coworke...	Dave R	1	197	Oct 29, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT April 1 Love and addiction (Preview) Some of us first saw the effects of addiction on the people closest to us. We were very dependent on them to carry us through life. We felt angry, disappointed, and hurt when they found other interests, friends, and loved ones. Basic Text, p. 7 = Addiction affected every area of our lives. Just as we...	Dave R	1	686	Oct 28, 2013 by Butterflygirl
	JFT October 26 The path to self-acceptance (Preview) The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery. IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Our addiction has been a source of shame to many of us. We have hidden ourselves from others, sure that if anyone got to know who we really were they would reject us...	Dave R	1	189	Oct 26, 2013 by cdbuckberry
	JFT October 24 Responsibility (Preview) We are not responsible for our disease, only for our recovery. As we begin to apply what we have learned, our lives begin to change for the better. Basic Text, p. 91 = The further we go in recovery, the less we avoid responsibility for ourselves and our actions. By applying the principles of the Nar...	Dave R	0	174	Oct 24, 2013 by Dave R
	JFT October 20 Freedom to choose (Preview) Enforced morality lacks the power that comes to us when we choose to live a spiritual life. Basic Text, p. 45 = In our active addiction, many of us lived our lives by default. We were unwilling or unable to make choices about how we wanted to act, what we preferred to do, or even where we would live. We a...	Dave R	2	296	Oct 24, 2013 by sandrela
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