Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   January 8                                                       Growing up

     "Our spiritual condition is the basis for a successful recovery that
                          offers unlimited growth."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 44

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   When our members celebrate their recovery anniversaries, they often say
   that they've "grown up" in NA.  Well, then, we think, what does that
   mean?  We start to wonder if we're grownups yet.  We check our lives and
   yes, all the trappings of adulthood are there:  the checkbook, the
   children, the job, the responsibilities.  On the inside, though, we often
   feel like children.  We're still confused by life much of the time.   We
   don't always know how to act.   We sometimes wonder whether we're
   really grownups at all, or whether we're children who've somehow been
   put into adult bodies and given adult responsibilities.

   Growth is not best measured by physical age or levels of responsibility.
   Our best measure of growth is our spiritual condition, the basis of our
   recovery.  If we're still depending on people, places, and things to
   provide our inner satisfaction, like a child depending on its parents for
   everything, we do indeed have some growing to do.  But if we stand secure
   on the foundation of our spiritual condition, considering its maintenance
   our most important responsibility, we can claim maturity.   Upon that
   foundation, our opportunities for growth are limitless.

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   Just for today:  The measure of my maturity is the extent to which I  take
   responsibility for the maintenance of my spiritual condition.  Today, this
   will be my highest priority.