Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   March 30                                                  God-centeredness

      "Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our
                           despair turns to hope."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 95

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   What a glorious thing to have hope!  Before coming to Narcotics Anonymous,
   many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness.    We believed we were
   destined to die from our disease.

   Many members speak of being on a "pink cloud" their first months in
   the program.   We've stopped using, made some friends, and life looks
   promising.  Things are going great.  Then reality sets in.  Life is still
   life-we still lose jobs, our partners still leave us, friends still die,
   we still get sick.   Abstinence is no guarantee that life will always go
   our way.

   When the reality of life on its own terms sets in, we turn to our Higher
   Power and remember that life happens the way life happens.  But no matter
   what occurs in our recovery we need not despair, for there is always
   hope.  That hope lies in our relationship with our Higher Power.

   This relationship, as expressed by the thought in our text, develops over
   time:  "Gradually, we become more God-centered." As we rely more and
   more on the strength of our Higher Power, life's struggles don't have
   to drag us into the sea of despair.   As we focus more on God, we focus
   less on ourselves.

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   Just for today:   I will rely on my Higher Power.   I will accept that,
   regardless of what happens, my Higher Power will provide me with the
   resources to live with it.