Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   November 15                                                     Letting go

     "Take my will and my life.  Guide me in my recovery.  Show me how to
                                    live."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 25

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   How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives?
   When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that
   our Higher Power works through others.   When we accept that we don't
   have all the answers, we open ourselves to new and different options.   A
   willingness to let go of our preconceived ideas and opinions opens the
   channel for spiritual guidance to light our way.

   At times, we must be driven to the point of distraction before we are
   ready to turn difficult situations over to our Higher Power.   Anxiously
   plotting, struggling, planning, worrying-none of these suffice.  We can
   be sure that if we turn our problems over to our Higher Power, through
   listening to others share their experience or in the quiet of meditation,
   the answers will come.

   There is no point in living a frantic existence.  Charging through life
   like the house is on fire exhausts us and gets us nowhere.  In the long
   run, no amount of manipulation on our part will change a situation.   When
   we let go and allow ourselves access to a Higher Power, we will discover
   the best way to proceed.   Rest assured, answers derived from a sound
   spiritual basis will be far superior to any answers we could concoct on
   our own.

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   Just for today:  I will let go and let my Higher Power guide my life.