Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   July 21                                          Surrender is for everyone

      "If, after a period of time, we find ourselves in trouble with our
    recovery, we have probably stopped doing one or more of the things that
              helped us in the earlier stages of our recovery."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 95

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   Surrender is just for newcomers, right?  Wrong!

   After we've been around awhile, some of us succumb to a condition
   particular to oldtimers.  We think we know something about recovery, about
   God, about NA, about ourselves-and we do.   The problem is, we think we
   know enough, and we think that merely knowing is enough.  But it's what
   we learn and what we do after we think we know it all that really makes
   the difference.

   Conceit and complacency can land us in deep trouble.   When we find that
   "applying the principles" on our own power just isn't working, we
   can practice what worked for us in the beginning: surrender.  When we find
   we are still powerless, our lives again unmanageable, we need to seek the
   care of a Power greater than ourselves.   And when we discover that
   self-therapy isn't so therapeutic after all, we need to take advantage
   of "the therapeutic value of one addict helping another."

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   Just for today:  I need guidance, support, and a Power beyond my own.   I
   will go to a meeting, reach out to a newcomer, call my sponsor, pray to my
   Higher Power-I will do something that says, "I surrender."