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jayson cole


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www.naworks.org Phila. Region Web Address.

September 15
Filling The Emptiness

"..we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright."

Basic Text p.77

In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness inside us. Though we tried as hard as we could to fill that emptiness ourselves, we never succeeded. In the end, we realized that we lacked the power to fill it; it would take a Power greater than ourselves to do that.

So we stopped using, and we stopped trying to fill the emptiness in our gut with things. We turned to our Higher Power, asking for its care, strength, and direction. We surrendered and made way for that Power to begin the process of filling our inner void. We stopped grabbing things and started receiving the free gift of love our Higher Power had for us. Slowly, our inner emptiness was being filled.

Now that we've been given our Higher Power's gift of love, what do we do with it? If we clasp that gift tightly to ourselves, we will smother it. We must remember that love grows only when it is shared. We can only keep this gift by freely giving it away. The world of addiction is a world of taking and being taken; the world of recovery is a world of giving and being given. In which world do we choose to live?

Just for today: I choose to live in the fullness of recovery. I will celebrate my conscious contact with the God of my understanding by freely sharing with others that which has been freely shared with me.

pg. 269

Back to: Just For Today Page of NAWORKS.org



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Surely, the Twelve Steps and our Higher Power's will that these steps reveal to us is the only thing that could make me feel whole smile.gif

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"The world of addiction is a world of taking and being taken; the world of recovery is a world of giving and being given. In which world do we choose to live?"

That line gave me chills because it's so true.

When I was using I was like a black hole, sucking up money, drugs, people's kindness, anything I could take, steal or manipulate from anybody.

I'm just almost 60 days clean and I still have problems with feeling like I 'need' something all the time. Like I 'need' a cigarette or 'need' a diet coke or 'need' a cup of coffee, or something to eat, etc. At least its not drugs and I'm not taking, taking, taking from other people anymore but it still seems like Its hard to just exist as I am

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I thought the same exact thing about that line....and if you wouldn't have posted it I surely would have!!!

I could never get enough of anything in my active addiction. When I found the rooms of NA I was truly given a gift by the addicts in the rooms...and that was one of unconditional love and acceptance of myself just how I was :)

Took awhile to trust and pick up that gift...and it is only by giving away the love to another addict that I am able to retain that gift, day after day. I haven't been alone in recovery or felt lonely since those first few months. I found a home and I not only kept coming back but I stuck and stayed... :)

Here's some velcro for those who are having a hard time...it'll help ya stay... :)

Much love and Big NA Hugs to you all :) We are truly blessed by having each other today; people who understand exactly where we've come from.

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