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BigV


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"This program offers hope. All you have to bring with you is the desire to stop using and the willingness to try this new way of life."
IP No. 16, "For the Newcomer"

From time to time we wonder if we're "doing it right" in Narcotics Anonymous. Are we attending enough meetings? Are we using our sponsor, or working the steps, or speaking, or reading, or living the "right" way? We value the fellowship of recovering addicts - we don't know what we'd do without it. What if the way we're practicing our program is "wrong?" Does that make us "bad" NA members?

We can settle our insecurities by reviewing our Third Tradition, which assures us that "the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using." There aren't any rules that say we've got to attend this many meetings or these particular meetings, or work the "steps" this way at this pace, or live our lives to suit these people in order to remain NA members in good standing.

It's true that, if we want the kind of recovery we see in members we respect, we'll want to practice the kind of program that's made their recovery possible. But NA is a fellowship of freedom; we work the program the best way for us, not for someone else. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.



 Just for today:
 I will look at the program I'm working in light of my own recovery. I will practice that program to the best of my ability.


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sugaree


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thanks for posting this vini. i read it this morning in the "just for today" as i was running out the door for work ine the middle of making bottles and putting my kids in the car.

The freedom to practice the NA program in my life to best suit my life attracts me to keep coming and continue to involve myself more and more each day.
It's taken me three years in this process to realize that for me to recieve all the benefits NA can give me i must be willing to do whatever it takes to put my recovery first.
Today i find a peace in just knowing i'm putting my best effort into my recovery - regardless of the situations and circumstances that surround me.
Meetings, sponsorship, stepwork, honesty, abstinence, openmindedness, willingness, faith, NA literature and this message board all help me to recover today - just for today

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It's a kinda get back what you put in thing

We all have lives to make in the mean time and this program certainly helps getting on with a good life, at least something much better then before, certainly isn't Utopia but then who's is?


If you like here is the link where i get the Just fo Toady's


http://sobermusicians.com/JFT.html

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