Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   June 16                                                     Accepting life

    "Some things we must accept, others we can change.  The wisdom to know
         the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 95

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   It's relatively easy to accept the things we like-it's the things we
   don't like that are hard to accept.  But remaking the world and everyone
   in it to suit our tastes would solve nothing.   After all, the idea that
   the world was to blame for all our problems was the attitude that kept us
   using-and that attitude nearly killed us.

   In the course of working the steps, we begin to ask ourselves hard
   questions about the roles we ourselves have played in creating the
   unacceptable lives we've lived.  In most cases, we've found that what
   needed changing was our own attitude and our own actions, not the people,
   places, and things around us.

   In recovery, we pray for wisdom to know the difference between what can
   and can't be changed.  Then, once we see the truth of our situation, we
   pray for the willingness to change ourselves.

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   Just for today:  Higher Power, grant me the wisdom to know the difference
   between what can be changed and what I  must accept.   Please help me
   gratefully accept the life I've been given.