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JFT November 5 Exchanging love
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...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...
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JFT October 13 Making a difference
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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...
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JFT November 3 No matter what
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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...
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JFT November 1 Awakening
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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...
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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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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...
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JFT October 31 Our relationship with a Higher Power
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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 = 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...
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JFT October 30 Courage
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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...
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JFT October 29 Living in the now
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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...
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JFT October 28 Attitudes
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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...
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JFT April 1 Love and addiction
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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...
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JFT October 26 The path to 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 = 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...
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JFT October 24 Responsibility
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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...
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JFT October 20 Freedom to choose
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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 October 23 Surrender
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By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power. Basic Text, p. 44 = When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didnt, we felt vulnerabl...
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Dropping in to say YO HI
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Been busy, been complacent, been being and doing life but im doing ok other then some health issues due to smoking and over working and over eating , you get what i'm saying i'm a good addict who's still not well, but its better, im not using and most days i'm fairly happy, life doesnt suck good to see same...
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29 years
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I celebrate 29 years clean today, thanks to NA, my HP, steps and traditions, sponsors and so many great people in the fellowship. I am so grateful for the blessings of recovery today!
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JFT October 22 Look who's talking
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Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations. Basic Text, p. 83 = Some of us say, My disease is talking to me. Others say, My head wont turn off. Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Lets face it. We suffer from an incurable malady that cont...
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JFT October 21 God's will today
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This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery. IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience = Sometimes, we really live the Third Stepand its great! We dont regret the past, we arent afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the present...
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Looking for a Greg P recording
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Hi, a guy named David R from Florida sponsored me for a couple of years, and he introduced me to Greg P via an audio cassette. The recording was from FRCNA, I believe the year was 1995, I'm not 100% on that, but the convention theme was "The Nature of Recovery". Greg was a main speaker, and he is m...
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JFT October 19 Standing for something
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...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us. Basic Text, p. 88 = In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, o...
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JFT October 18 We all belong
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Although politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes, addiction makes us one of a kind. Basic Text, p. 87 = What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous! In any given meeting on any given night, well find a variety of people who probably never would have sat down in a room toge...
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JFT October 17 "The Truth"
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Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth. Basic Text, p. 94 = Many of us thought we could recognize The Truth. We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was tha...
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JFT October 16 The simplest prayer
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...praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step Eleven = How do we pray? With little experience, many of us dont even know how to begin. The process, however, is neither difficult nor complicated. We came to Narcotics Anonymous because of our drug addiction....
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JFT October 15 Choices
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We did not choose to become addicts.Basic Text, p. 3=When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, What do you want to be when you grow up? Even if some of us didnt have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families, and a future of...
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JFT October 14 The end of loneliness
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With the love that I am shown in Narcotics Anonymous, I have no excuse for loneliness. = Addiction is a lonely disease. We may be surrounded by people but, sooner or later, our addiction drives a wedge between us and even our closest loved ones. Many of us are driven to Narcotics Anonymous by a despe...
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Any one live in Georgia??
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I am considering making a move to Monroe, outside of Athens... just curious... no decision made yet, but it is a possibility.John
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How to act from now on?
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I used mari. for intensive 12 years of daily use. I suffer from tendency to get depressed. I was treated to stop by taking SSRI and speak with therapist. After 3 months of therapy I quit the use Totally. Six months later I started to smoke again from time to time with freinds. Did not feel I am falling again...
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JFT October 10 Consequences
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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 = Ever been tempted to do something even when you knew the results would be disastrous? Ever thought about how much it was going to hurt to do what you were tempted to d...
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JFT October 12 Being right
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When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we dont have to argue our point of view.... We no longer have to be right all the time. Basic Text, p. 58 = Nothing isolates us more quickly from the warmth and camaraderie of our fellow NA members than having to be right. Insecure, we pretend to...
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JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes
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Our best thinking got us into trouble.... Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes. Basic Text, p. 55 = In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place. Using helped us tolerate the world we saw. Today, however, we understand that the worlds condition wasnt...
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