...we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us.
Basic Text, p. 88
=
In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or lied to our employers, we were ignoring the values that mattered most to us. Each time we compromised another dearly held belief, another chunk of the mortar holding our characters together fell away. By the time many of us came to our first meeting, nothing was left but the ruin of our former selves.
We will locate our lost values as we carry out our first honest self-examination. But in order to rebuild our characters, well find it necessary to maintain those values, no matter how great the temptation to shove them aside. We will need to be honest, even when we think we could fool everyone by lying. If we ignore our values, well discover that the biggest fibs weve told have been the ones weve told ourselves.
We dont want to start the demolition of our spirits again after all the work weve put into their restoration. Its essential that we stand for something, or we risk falling for anything. Whatever we find important to us, we honor.
=
Just for today: I stand for something. My strength is the result of living my values.
For so many years I would tell myself and others"Im a good person" totally trying to deceive and portray something I wasn't! Today, through God's grace and my actions working spiritual principles 'in all my affairs)(trying hard anyway)I show the person I really am!! Have a blessed and productive day
__________________
Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
I stand for spiritual principles. Being a good person and having the freedom from anger, resentment, and fear that goes with it is worth more than alot of material things. I remember when having 'stuff' mattered more than my peace of mind. It ended up that I lost the stuff and suffered with a troubled mind and deeply wounded spirit. How blessed am I to know what really matters today?
Im remined of "as yet" whenever I begin thinking "I didnt get that bad" "I never fell to that level" " i wasnt that stupid"
These judgements of the status of other Fellow addicts is certain to keep me in isolation. Isolation is on the placing as resentment as the number one enemies of the recovering addict.
Today, because of the spiritual values I learned in NA, im willing to share my knowledge gained in recovery, in education and life in general....
__________________
Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
