Today's Reading from Just For Today © NA World Services
May 31 Keep it simple
"We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop
living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably."
Basic Text, p. 99
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Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us
who've dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many of us
came face to face with a world that was confusing, even terrifying.
Looking at life and all its details, all at once, may be overwhelming. We
think that maybe we can't handle life after all and that it's useless
to try. These thoughts feed themselves, and pretty soon we're paralyzed
by the imagined complexity of life.
Happily, we don't have to fix everything at once. Solving a single
problem seems possible, so we take them one at a time. We take care of
each moment as it comes, and then take care of the next moment as it
comes. We learn to stay clean just for today, and we approach our
problems the same way. When we live life in each moment, it's not such
a terrifying prospect. One breath at a time, we can stay clean and learn
to live.
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Just for today: I will keep it simple by living in this moment only.
Today, I will tackle only today's problems; I will leave tomorrow's
problems to tomorrow.