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senseijc


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www.naworks.org Phila. Region Web Address.

September 28
Hope

"Gradually as we become more God-centered than self centered, our despair turns to hope."

Basic Text, p.92

As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to make our lives better, we slid ever deeper into misery. Attempts we made to control our lives frequently met with failure. In a sense, our First Step admission of powerlessness was an acknowledgment of despair.

Steps Two and Three lead us gradually out of that despair and into new hope, the companion of the recovering addict. Having accepted that so many of our efforts to change have failed, we come to believe that there is a Power greater than ourselves. We believe this Power can - and will - help us. We practice the Second and Third Steps as an affirmation of our hope for a better life, turning to this Power for guidance. As we come to rely more and more on a Higher Power for the management of our day - to - day life, the despair arising from our long experiment with self-sufficiency disappears.

Just for today: I will reaffirm my Third Step decision. I know that, with a Higher Power in my life, there is hope.

pg. 282

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It was refreshing to read today's JFT this morning...

In a simple way, how the first three steps express in our daily lives is explained...

When I was in my early recovery, I thought the first step did not have much value just because I've stopped using, and rarely, on those occasions when I get thoughts of using is when I have to dust out my first step and use it again... how wrong I was...

This flawed perception I developed due to my ignorance of what NA's first step is - I thought it said I'm powerless over drugs and my using, but little did I realize then that the first step of NA means that I'm powerless over my disease of addiction that is within me, in my body, mind and spirit. That I'm powerless over my addiction manifesting itself in my thoughts, feelings and emotions, attitude, behavior, the way I speak, the way I act and react, the way I perceive things, the way I deal with others in my life, the way I deal with my resources everything, in all areas of my life... That my despair arises out of acting out on my disease, and by applying Step One, the most important and frequently used step (foundation on which my recovery and growth is based), I can transform my despair into hope with the help of Steps Two and Three. But for me to open my mind to a Higher Power, I must first admit and accept that I can't (Step One)...

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I enjoyed today's JFT...I've tried many times to stop using and now I'm back where I started in the early first steps and it is very very very hard. But I want to try this time, I want to stop, I'm ready, I just need to ease the addiction out of me with the help of this, group, and maybe even other sources. But I recognize it again and it has to stop.

thanks for posting these, they're very inspirational.

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