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Dave R


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It is important for you to know that you will hear God mentioned at NA meetings.  What we are referring to is a Power greater than ourselves that makes possible what seems impossible.

IP No. 22, Welcome to NA

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Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with a variety of preconceptions about what the word God means, many of them negative.  Yet the G word is used very regularly in NA, if not constantly.  It occurs 92 times in the first 103 pages of our Basic Text, and appears prominently in a third of our Twelve Steps.  Rather than sidestep the sensitivity many of us feel toward the word, lets address it head on.

Its true that Narcotics Anonymous is a spiritual program.  Our Twelve Steps offer a way to find freedom from addiction through the help of a spiritual Power greater than we are.  The program, however, doesnt tell us anything about what we have to think about that Power.  In fact, over and over again, in our literature and our steps and our meetings, we hear it said, the God of our understandingwhatever that understanding may be.

We use the word God because its used in our Basic Text and because it communicates most effectively to most people a basic understanding of the Power underlying our recovery.  The word, we use for the sake of convenience.  The Power behind the word, however, we use for more than convenience.  We use that Power to maintain our freedom from addiction and to ensure our ongoing recovery.

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Just for today:  Whether I believe in God or not, I will use the Power that keeps me clean and free.

 



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Mike M


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When many of us got here we suffered from years of a vindictive dogmatic religious God drilled into us from childhood. Thou shalt not thou shalt not thou shalt nots - we'd done so many of them we felt we were condemned and worthless beyond redemption. I had to come to a new understanding of a loving God and over time the feelings of worthlessness lessened and went away. Whether to you God means Good Orderly Direction or Great Onipotent Power or whatever your personal understanding it is for you to come to the understanding, nobody else. The Power is real. I'd tried many ways over and over to stop using and could not for any length of time. Yet by the Grace of my Higher Power whom I choose to call God through the Power of NA Clean for 32 years. NA Works if you Work it!

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Many don't believe in God in NA. But our Higher Power does not have to be God . It can be a peaceful place you can go and sit at meditate or just think . NA work's if you want what it has to offer.It is there to take and use to change your life .It has worked for many , many people before us , but you have to work it .

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