Just for today We will learn to accept the NA Traditions. Tradition 8 Pg 188,What is Narcotics Anonymous, after all, but a fellowship of addicts freely sharing with one another the simple message of their own experience.
Just for today,we will encourage NA members to feel free to share their own experience when sharing at an NA gathering.
Just for today we will celebrate the freedom of the NA traditions. Just for today we will Praise God for he alone guided the hands of the addicts that wrote the na traditions.
And I know for certain that anything I do, that is not in co-operation with the Traditions, is a waste of time and precious resources. I usually end up losing serenity and sanity,,,
So just for today, I will take heed of the message in the Traditions.
And practice those percepts in all my affairs, in all areas of my life.
-- Edited by Raman on Thursday 24th of June 2010 01:02:34 AM
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
Yes like our literature tells us, it seeks to explore spiritual principles within the traditions and engage members with the spirit=not the law of the traditions and provides a basis for a thoughtful discussion..as long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that will tear us apart,all will be well.
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Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
The traditions pertain to the functioning of NA groups...they are the suggested guidelines for the effective running of the group and the greater organisation of NA....
Its also a god of your own understanding and my 'god' is not really guiding anyone's hand.....that's a spiritualist belief system that has nothing to do with me and i've been clean in NA 25 years........still you are very welcome to your point of view and i respect it but don't believe it....we are a multifaceted organisation....Mike L
