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JFT February 7 This is not a test
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...we have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn. Basic Text, p. 27 = Some of us come into recovery with the impression that lifes hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens and we wail, My Higher...
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JFT February 6 I can't--we can
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We had convinced ourselves that we could make it alone and proceeded to live life on that basis. The results were disastrous and, in the end, each of us had to admit that self-sufficiency was a lie. Basic Text, p. 62 = I cant, but we can. This simple but profound truth applies initially to our first nee...
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I hadn't done any drugs in almost a year, now I've been hanging out with some people that still so them and I've started again. Every time I have a few drinks, I have the urge to use. I am tired. I do not want to use anymore, and I need to talk to people that are not using. I can't tell anyone what I've been go...
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JFT February 5 Keep coming back
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We are grateful that we were made so welcome at meetings that we felt comfortable. Basic Text, p. 83 = Remember how scared we were when we walked into our first NA meeting? Even if we walked in with a friend, most of us recall how difficult it was to attend that first meeting. What was it that kept us comi...
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JFT February 4 Feeling good isn't the point
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For us, recovery is more than just pleasure. Basic Text, p. 43 = In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was to feel good....
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Live-in BF Addicted to Oxy- Advice Needed Please
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My intelligent, loving, wonderful boyfriend of over a year is an opiate addict. When we first starting dating, I knew he was in recovery and had spend some time in rehab in college. At the time, recovery was something I really respected and admired about him. I thought that it was something he had dealt...
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JFT February 3 We need each other
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Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion. Basic Text, p. 9 = Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different. We didnt need anyone or anything, we thought. There was nothing of value to be found in anyone from a different neighborho...
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JFT February 2 Goodwill
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Goodwill is best exemplified in service; proper service is Doing the right thing for the right reason. Basic Text, p. xv = The spiritual core of our disease is self-centeredness. In dealing with others, the only motive our addiction taught us was selfishnesswe wanted what we wanted when we wante...
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JFT February 1 Hardships
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We felt different.... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction. Basic Text, p. 22 = But you dont understand! we spluttered, trying to cover up. Im different! Ive really got it rough! We used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to escape t...
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JFT January 31 Trust
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Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery. Basic Text, p. 93 = Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldnt trust ourselves. Now...
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JFT January 30 Giving it away
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We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us. Basic Text, p. 49 = In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the steps in our li...
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JFT January 29 The First Step--an action step
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Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs? Basic Text, p. 18 = At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no actionwe just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action! The action we take in the First Step will be evident in the way we live, even from ou...
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JFT to mobile
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Can someone Please tell me how,what and where do i get JFT readings sent to My mobile???
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Quiet here lately...
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If your a regular just laying low how about a shout out? If your new or a lurker...let's hear from you!
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JFT January 28 An every-day addict
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We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean. Basic Text, p. 84 = After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we have been cured. Weve learned everything NA has to teach us; weve grown bored with the meetings; and our sponsor keeps droning the same old refrain: T...
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JFT January 27 Learning how to live again
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We learn new ways to live. We are no longer limited to our old ideas. Basic Text, p. 56 = We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of life as children. No matter, by the time we found recovery, most of us had only the vaguest idea of how to live. Our isolation from the rest of socie...
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JFT January 26 Self-centeredness
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The spiritual part of our disease is our total self-centeredness. Basic Text, p. 20 = What is self-centeredness? It is our belief that the world revolves around us. Our wishes, our demands are the only ones worth consideration. Our self-centered minds believe they are capable of getting everyt...
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JFT January 16 Make that call!
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We feared that if we ever revealed ourselves as we were, we would surely be rejected.... [But] our fellow members do understand us. Basic Text, p. 32 = We need our fellow NA memberstheir experience, their friendship, their laughter, their guidance, and much, much more. Yet many of us hesitate to ca...
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JFT January 25 An added gift
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We see it happening among us every day. This miraculous turnabout is evidence of a spiritual awakening. Basic Text, p. 51 = We watch them walk in to their first meeting defeated, their spirits broken. Their suffering is obvious, and their desire for help even more apparent. They collect a welcome...
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suboxine
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IM on suboxin now im feeling ive traded one drug for another. I want to taper down but the dr said if i get off of it too soon i may relapse because ive used pain meds for soo many years. I dnt know what to do. Any advise would be appreciated.
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JFT January 24 From isolation to connection
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Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world. Basic Text, p. 4 = Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others living, surely be...
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JFT January 23 Serenity check
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Lack of daily maintenance can show up in many ways. Basic Text, p. 95 = Ever had a perfect stranger remark about how great the weather was, only to reply It stinks? When this happens, we are probably suffering from a lack of daily maintenance in our program. In recovery, life can get pretty hectic. Ma...
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JFT January 22 The school of recovery
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This is a program for learning. Basic Text, p. 16 = Learning in recovery is hard work. The things we most need to know are often the hardest to learn. We study recovery to prepare ourselves for the experiences life will give us. As we listen to others share in meetings, we take mental notes we can refer...
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tradtions work book
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i am looking for a copy of the lone star workbook on the tradtios . can anyone help me
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JFT Unity and uniformity
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Unity is a must in Narcotics Anonymous. Basic Text, p. 63 = Unity is not uniformity. Unity springs from the fact that we have unity of purposeto recover, and to help others stay clean. Even so, we often find that while we strive to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be radically diffe...
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JFT January 20 One promise, many gifts
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Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise, and that is freedom from active addiction... Basic Text, p. 106 = Imagine how it might be if we had arrived at the doors of Narcotics Anonymous, desperate, wanting to stop using drugs, only to be met by a sales pitch: If you just work the steps and dont use...
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JFT January 19 Making mountains into molehills
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When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably. Basic Text, p. 99 = Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us whove found some measure of serenity have probably blown a problem far out of proportion at some time in our rec...
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JFT January 18 The simple inventory
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Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships on a regular basis. Basic Text, p. 42 = The daily inventory is a tool we can use to simplify our lives. The most complicated part of taking a regular inventory...
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January 19 JFT
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January 19 Making Mountains Into Molehills " When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably." Basic Text, p. 96 Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us who've found some measure of serenity have probably bl...
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JFT January 17 Forgiveness
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As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving. At least we know that we are no longer intentionally making life miserable for people. Basic Text, pp. 39-40 = In our addiction we often treated others badly, sometimes deliberately finding ways to make their lives miserable. In ou...
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