Although honesty is difficult to practice, it is most rewarding.
Basic Text, p. 96
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How difficult we find it to be honest! Many of us come to NA so confused about what really happened in our lives that it sometimes takes months and years to sort it all out. The truth of our history is not always as we have told it. How can we begin to be more truthful?
Many of us find it the easiest to be honest in prayer. With our fellow addicts, we sometimes find that we have a hard time telling the whole truth. We feel certain that we wont be accepted if we let others know us as we really are. Its hard to live up to the terminally hip and fatally cool image so many of us portrayed! In prayer, we find an acceptance from our Higher Power that allows us to open our hearts with honesty.
As we practice this honesty with the God of our understanding, we often find that it has a ripple effect in our communications with others. We get in the habit of being honest. We begin to practice honesty when we share at meetings and work with others. In return, we find our lives enriched by deepening friendships. We even find that we can be more honest with ourselves, the most important person to be truthful with!
Honesty is a quality that is developed through practice. It isnt always easy to be totally truthful, but when we begin with our Higher Power, we find it easier to extend our honesty to others.
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Just for today: I will be honest with God, myself, and others.
As a using addict there was no honesty amongst addicts , we stole conned or spent all our income on those drugs of choice. It took quite a few years in recovery to learn to practice honesty one form or another.Now at 9 years almost ten years in recovery I see the values of honesty in my recovery , friendships.I am honest with God , myself and others.
.....the more I look,,the more I realize how 'out-of-touch' I am with myself,,my feelings......the best I can do is ask for guidance and protection as I learn a new way to live
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...gawd,,,please don't let me -ever- forget why I came here in the first place!!(my 'senility' prayer)
