When we arrived at our first NA meeting, it looked like the end of the road to many of us. We werent going to be able to use anymore. We were spiritually bankrupt. Most of us were totally isolated and didnt think we had much to live for. Little did we realize that, as we began our program of recovery, we were stepping onto a road of unlimited possibilities.
At first, just not using was tough enough. Yet, as we watched other addicts working the steps and applying those principles in their lives, we began to see that recovery was more than just not using. The lives of our NA friends had changed. They had a relationship with the God of their understanding. They were responsible members of the fellowship and of society. They had a reason to live. We began to believe these things were possible for us, too.
As we continue our recovery journey, we can get sidetracked by complacency, intolerance, or dishonesty. When we do, we need to recognize the signs quickly and get back on our paththe open road to freedom and growth.
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Just for today:I am continuing to develop my spiritual, social, and general living skills by applying the principles of my program. I can travel as far as I wish on the open road of recovery.
When I got to NA I didn't know how to live life at all. Indeed came in the doors physically, emotionally and spiritually bankrupt. And I really didn't even know how to communicate with other people. Living skills were a joke, all I knew were survival skills, how not to die out there on the streets using.
NA offers many tools on the Journey of Recovery. Meetings and The Steps of course being the foundation. Another invaluable tool in learning to interact with other people and growing up was found in committee Service work. Yeah, sitting in Group and Area Service Committee meetings fighting and arguing (debating ) opinions versus God's Will for Us taught me a lot about dealing with other people in an other than an addicts natural totally self centered egotistical way. And being involved in Service work also helped fill the void of self loathing, replacing it with self-worth found through self-less giving.
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Work the Steps or Die MF. (My Friend :) Clean One Day At a Time by The Grace of God through The Power of NA
) opinions versus God's Will for Us taught me a lot about dealing with other people in an other than an addicts natural totally self centered egotistical way. And being involved in Service work also helped fill the void of self loathing, replacing it with self-worth found through self-less giving.
