Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   August 31                                                        Gratitude

   "Hopeless living problems have become joyously changed.  Our disease has
                been arrested, and now anything is possible."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 102

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   The NA program has given us more freedom than we ever dreamed possible.
   Sometimes, though, in the daily routine, we lose track of how much we've
   been given.  How, exactly, have our lives changed in Narcotics Anonymous?

   The bottom line of recovery, of course, is freedom from the compulsion to
   use.   No longer must we devote all our resources to feeding our
   addiction.  No longer must we endanger, humiliate, or abuse ourselves or
   others just to get the next "fix."  Abstinence itself has brought
   great freedom to our lives.

   Narcotics  Anonymous   has  given   us  much   more  than   simple
   abstinence-we've been given a whole new life.   We've taken our
   inventory and have identified the defects of character that bound us for
   so long, keeping us from living and enjoying life.  We've surrendered
   those shortcomings, taken responsibility for them, and sought  the
   direction and power we need to live differently.  Our home group has given
   us the personal warmth and support that helps us continue living in
   recovery.  And topping all this off, we have the love, care, and guidance
   of the God we've come to understand in NA.

   In the course of day-to-day recovery, we sometimes forget how much our
   lives have changed in Narcotics Anonymous.  Do we fully appreciate what
   our program has given us?

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   Just for today:  Recovery has given me freedom.  I will greet the day with
   hope, grateful that anything is possible today.