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JFT March 30 God-centeredness
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Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope. Basic Text, p. 95 = What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. Many members...
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JFT March 29 Our own true will
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...Gods will for us consists of the very things we most value. Gods will... becomes our own true will for ourselves. Basic Text, p. 48 = Its human nature to want something for nothing. We may be ecstatic when a store cashier gives us back change for a twenty though we only paid with a ten. We tend to thin...
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JFT March 28 Facing feelings
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We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic. Basic Text, p. 30 = While we were using, many of us were unable or unwilling to feel many emotions. If we were happy, we used to make us happier. If we were angry or depressed, we used to mask t...
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Step 12
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Hello all, if anyone would give me some experience, strength, and hope on the 12th step, it would be much appreciated. I am just trying to get some brief outside influences. Thanks again
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eBook taken from my diary before and after entering a Salvation Army rehab center.
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Here are some exerpts from my eBook Rehabilitatin' We may begin to comprehend addiction by looking at it as though it were a game. Lets call it the Lie Till You Drop game. The name sounds innocent but dont let that fool you. It is a brutal and deadly game that rarely has any survivors. It is built on the pr...
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JFT March 27 Looking for the assets
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In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other. Basic Text, p. 11 = How many times in our recovery have we misunderstood the behavior of another, immediately formed a judgment, applied a label, and neatly tucked the individual into a pi...
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JFT March 26 Trusting a sponsor--worth the risk
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In seeking a sponsor, most members look for someone they feel they can learn to trust, someone who seems compassionate IP No. 11, Sponsorship, Revised = The idea of sponsorship may be new to us. We have spent many years without direction, relying only on self-interest, suspecting everyone, trus...
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Join me in celebration
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Morning and blessings of this day! Please join me today in reflection and grattitude as this addict,with the God of my understandings grace and mercy celebrate 65 years of LIFE. After 25 years of devastation and making my 37th birthday not looking promising I was graced to be able to choose between L...
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Why Are We Here
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Chapter 3 Why Are We Here?Before coming to the Fellowship of N.A., we could not manage our own lives. We could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands...
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JFT March 25 I can't but we can
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From the isolation of our addiction, we find a fellowship of people with a common bond... Our faith, strength, and hope come from people sharing their recovery... Basic Text, p. 98 = Admit no weakness, conceal all shortcomings, deny every failure, go it alone that was the creed many of us followed...
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Catchy sayings heard at meetings.
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I thought it would be fun to start a thread on some of the wisdom we hear at meetings. Heard a good one today. "Having a resentment is like setting yourself on fire and expecting the other person to get burned." Heard any good ones lately?
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Second Step (2,II,Two) Discussions Repeating Same mistakes . . .
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During my treatment in a rehab and mind you before this happened I never thought I was insane , one fine morning I was reading the NA Big Blue Book , and going through it I read a definition of WHAT IS INSANITY : It Read - Repeating the same mistakes again and again and expecting different results . This one d...
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JFT March 24 Letting go of the past
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It is not where we were that counts, but where we are going. Basic Text, p. 23 = When we first find recovery, some of us feel shame or despair at calling ourselves addicts. In the early days, we may be filled with both fear and hope as we struggle to find new meaning in our lives. The past may seem inescapa...
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Scheduled Online NA meeting tonight at 10 PM Eastern time
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MIP NA Meeting/Chat Room MIP NA Group Message Board Hi everyone, Tonight we have a scheduled online NA meeting in our room tonight at 10 p.m. eastern time, so please join us and help carry the message of Narcotics Anonymous. Please try to keep in mind that we have two meetings scheduled per week at this t...
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Dual Addicts. One long recovering, one relapsing and putting me through her whirlwind
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I am a recovering Crackhead, Weedhead, two time crystal meth user and two time heroin user who hasn't used in over 6 years but who lives with my fiance who i have known for over 10 years and originally met in recovery. She has put herself and myself through a lot for over a year continually relapsing on cry...
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JFT March 23 God's gifts
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We do the footwork and accept whats being given to us freely on a daily basis. Basic Text, p. 47 = Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street. In prayer, we speak and God listens. When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the will of our Higher Power. We know that we are responsible fo...
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Online NA Meetings Starting Here Again!
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Hi Everyone, As has been noted in a previous post, I did some work on the site, regarding upgrading the web site entrance, so people could get into the room without a problem with the java or the irc server we were using. I have tested its level of functionality and it past with flying colors! Our meetin...
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JFT March 22 The principle of self-support
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In our addiction, we were dependent upon people, places, and things. We looked to them to support us and supply the things we found lacking in ourselves. Basic Text, pp. 70-71 = In the animal kingdom, there is a creature that thrives on others. It is called a leech. It attaches itself to people and ta...
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JFT March 21 A treatable illness
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Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs. Basic Text, p. 3 = At our first meeting, we may have been taken aback at the way members shared about how the disease of addiction had affected their lives. We thought to ourselves, Disease? Ive just got a drug problem! What in the world a...
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Looks like Johns been working on the meeting room
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Miracles in progress AA part will be holding meetings on Tuesday nights 9 East coast time and Saturday morning 11am East coast time. Our NA room is open now and working it seems and i guess if you'd have some clean time and want to run meetings get a hold of John and let him know, not sure if there using the o...
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JFT March 19 Something valuable to share
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A simple, honest message of recovery from addiction rings true. Basic Text, p. 51 = Youre in a meeting. The sharing has been going on for some time. One or two members have described their spiritual experiences in an especially meaningful way. Another has had us all rolling in the aisles with enter...
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JFT March 20 Higher power
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Most of us have no trouble admitting that addiction had become a destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts resulted in ever greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized that we needed the help of some Power greater than our addiction. Basic Text, p. 24 = Most of us know without...
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JFT March 18 The full message
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There is a special feeling for addicts when they discover that there are other people who share their difficulties, past and present. Basic Text, pp. 55-56 = The wealth of our recovery is too good to keep to ourselves. Some of us believe that when we talk in meetings, we should remember the newcomer...
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JFT March 17 True courage
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Those who make it through these times show a courage not their own. Basic Text, p. 86 = Before coming to NA, many of us thought we were brave simply because we had never experienced fear. We had drugged all our feelings, fear among them, until we had convinced ourselves that we were tough, courageou...
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JFT March 14 Relationships
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Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships. Basic Text, p. 29 = What an understatement this is! Especially in later recovery, entire inventories may focus on our relationships with others. Our lives have been filled with relationships with lovers, friends, parents, c...
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JFT March 16 Inventory
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The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and the contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are. Basic Text, p. 27 = Using addicts are a confused and confusing bunch of people. Its hard to tell from one minute to the next what theyre g...
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Sense of worthiness.
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A wonderful share, reposted with permission.
When we question whether or not we are worthy of something it is important at that time to shift into gratitude.
We all know what its like to finally get something we want, only to find ourselves feeling as if we dont deserve it. Whether its a car, a new j...
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JFT March 15 Feeling "a part of"
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The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didnt get to discuss during the meeting. Basic Text, p. 98 = Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let others get to know us, they w...
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holiday from hell
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just got back from houston on friday as i stayed one night at hotel to pass out as the drive was a last minute choice the ppl i was with are the real kinda con artist they have ppl visit that they meet online i barely made it home a friend had to rent a room for me that i actually met on this site in 05 as i was falli...
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I can learn something here from you all
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Its been a very rough 6 months or so, I found out after one more time of trying to be in a relationship with long time girlfriend that she married her second best boy friend HAH. She wanted me to marry her, she had left him after being engaged to him to see if it would work with me, she did everything in her pow...
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