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BigV


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February 14

Honesty And Spirituality

"The right to a God of your understanding is total and without any catches. Because we have this right, it is necessary to be honest about our belief if we are to grow spiritually"

Basic Text, p. 25

In meetings, over refreshments, in talks with our sponsor, we hear our NA friends talking about the way they understand their Higher Power. It would be easy to "go with the flow;" adopting someone else's beliefs. But just as no one else can recover for us, so no one else's spirituality can substitute for our own. We must honestly search for an understanding of God that truly works for us.

Many of us begin that search with prayer and meditation, and continue with our experiences in recovery. Have there been instances where we have been given power beyond our own to face life's challenges? When we have quietly sought direction in times of trouble, have we found it? What kind of Power do we believe has guided and strengthened us? What kind of Power do we seek? With the answers to these questions, we will understand our Higher Power well enough to feel safe and confident about asking it to care for our will and lives.

A borrowed understanding of God may do on a short haul. But in the long run, we must come to our own understanding of a Higher Power, for it is that Power which will carry us through our recovery.

Just for today: I seek a Power greater than myself that can help me grow spiritually. Today, I will examine my beliefs honestly and come to my own understanding of God.

pg. 46

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Not until I got a God of my own personal understanding did I beging to stay clean.

I think this is a huge reason why alot of people don't/won't stay clean.

Whats your God like?


My God is forgiving and Loving. My God helps me face myself when I especially hate and deplore ME myself and I's and there are alot of me's I come in alot of different colors so to speak.

My God guides me and walks with me and even carries me thru troubling times.

My God holds me close when fear and danger looms. He gives me strength to fight thru or surreneder depending on the situation.

My God tries to help and show me the man i can be, the changes I can make, he gives me hope when i feel hopeless.


-- Edited by BigV at 10:46, 2007-02-14

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vini
My God is loving and kind a strange sense of humor that I have yet to understand many call him God;although, my version would be on a harley. He accepts me for who I am and never leaves me now I have been know to leave him a time or two and then I am in trouble, but as long as I quickly remember I am riding bitch and he is driving all is well. My God is a forgiving guy not quick to judge cause he has walked among many ppl and loved them all the same.HE loves me the way NA does, unconditionally, for this I am grateful. He has carried me thru many trials in and out of recovery. Never forgets to remind me I am loved, but will give me a nudge if needed. He has carefully molded me into who I am today. I am thankful that I have a God that will love me even if I mess up.

thanx vini

love Manon

-- Edited by rayne at 09:42, 2007-02-15

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Ok, I will let the secret behind my recovery out too ~ my Higher Power whom I call God is "The total consciousness as a whole, that includes everything and everyone, everywhere, at all levels of existence."

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Hi you guys, I definitely feel as you do Tahir, the all encompassing god, but the god of my understanding, who I turn to over and over, and turn it over to and who turns it all around for me...lol
OK, I wrote this in my journal last night after I read what you wrote Vini;
She is the Great Eternal Mother,She who birthed my soul, guides me when I am lost, teaches me the mysteries of the feminine divine, steps back and patiently waits so that I may learn from my mistakes, no matter how many times I must repeat them, never abandons me. When I feel hopeless, she shows me there is much hope, when I feel afraid, she teaches me there is nothing to fear and shows me that I have courage and strength because she is within me and all around me. She reminds me to walk with grace and humility and she challenges me in order to show me my potential. She is always forgiving and reminds me through the opportunities that are presented to me that all my experiences are lessons learned, have value and purpose, and that there is really no reason for shame. My Goddess tells me I am the embodiment of her, and in order for there to be balance there must be both light and darkness, in order for there to be rebirth there must be death. By always accepting me for who I am, she teaches me the meaning of acceptance.
Thank You Great Mother

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Wonderful things you all have to say.

I remember vividly the day I prayed so honestly and sincere for God to help me, to release me from this obsession of addiction and from that moment on until I made a grave error and lied to myself that obsession was removed.

All I can add is " to they own self be true" for in that we are true also to our higher power and with that which holds all power we are also as one with that power and nothing can overcome that.

May we all find our God whom will pick us up and show us how the pieces of our lives can be put back together, patiently!



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So well put everyone, my higher power has changed over time in recovery. The God I pray to today is within me and all around me, my God speaks to me through others and shows me the direction I need to go in by giving me opportunities to do the right thing, my God dose not need to forgive me for anything I have done or will do because I am accepted for who I am and loved unconditionally. My God is my teacher, my friend, my true love, and my shoulder to lean on.

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This is one of the most astonishing truths that I have experienced in my recovery...

"Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, page 45

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You know the other night the clanging in my head was seaseless , and I realized this goes on every waking moment and including sleep. Some, no, most mornings lately i wake up with a song in my head, something i've been singing inside my head while I sleep and its on my mind when I wake .

I think its the stress's of life and my mind finds soothing from music.

This is hard staying clean, sometimes.

Getting loaded was an escape from everything, all i'd feel is the throbbing pulsing good feeling of the drug and everything seems to wash away, but it doesn't stay it too wash's away and reality has to be faced once again, then it gets to the point where reality isn't worth facing and staying loaded is the main thing in life, then life falls apart and consequences of  happen.

So, *sigh* what choice is there, to go onto the biter end getting loaded and dealing with consequences of that decision or staying clean and facing life thru spiritual means? which also isn't easy but faced with what isn't easy and the consequences of what is i'll stay where i'm at today...........clean.


Sometimes I stop what i'm doing wherever i'm at, did it in a parking lot just the other day.


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Chapter 10
More Will Be Revealed
First paragraph

As our recovery progressed, we became increasingly aware of ourselves and the world around us. Our needs and wants, our assets and liabilities, were revealed to us. We came to realize that we had no power to change the outside world; we could only change ourselves. The program of Narcotics Anonymous provides an opportunity for us to ease the pain of living, through spiritual principles.

more will be reveiled go here

http://www.earthgroupna.org/literature/basictext/chapterten.htm


-- Edited by BigV at 11:12, 2007-02-20

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I needed to read all that tonight for i am struggling with my own probs not really knowing how to express how I feel just that I feel. So many emotions all at once but then to be reminded that i need to tell my problems how big my god is instead of telling my god how big my probs are. I have to remind myself to stay in gratitude with that day by day hurdles are easier to face thank you MIP I am grateful to have found home

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