Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape lifes pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troubles. Our altered sense of reality became a nightmare.
Through living the program of Narcotics Anonymous, we learn that our dreams can replace our nightmares. We grow and change. We acquire the freedom of choice. We are able to give and receive love. We can share honestly about ourselves, no longer magnifying or minimizing the truth. We accept the challenges real life offers us, facing them in a mature, responsible way.
Although recovery does not give us immunity from the realities of life, in the NA Fellowship we can find the support, genuine care, and concern we need to face those realities. We need never hide from reality by using drugs again, for our unity with other recovering addicts gives us strength. Today, the support, the care, and the empathy of recovery give us a clean, clear window through which to view, experience, and appreciate reality as it is.
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Just for today: A gift of my recovery is living and enjoying life as it truly is. Today, I will embrace reality.
But, another reality is this.., that not enough thought was put into teaching the practice of reciting The Serenity Prayer at the start of every meeting before putting into practice.
Check out the thread I started today on who The Serenity Prayer is to.
The reality is this..., that unless Yehweh created us and is our god, (religious), then our god will be hating that prayer because it is to a false god originally.
But, another reality is this.., that not enough thought was put into teaching the practice of reciting The Serenity Prayer at the start of every meeting before putting into practice.
Check out the thread I started today on who The Serenity Prayer is to.
The reality is this..., that unless Yehweh created us and is our god, (religious), then our god will be hating that prayer because it is to a false god originally.
Check it out.
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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
