Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   September 13                                           Something different

    "We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in
                                   drugs."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 13

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   Many of us have always felt different from other people.  We know we're
   not unique in feeling that way;  we hear many addicts share the same
   thing.  We searched all our lives for something to make us all right, to
   fix that "different" place inside  us, to make us whole  and
   acceptable.  Drugs seemed to fill that need.  When we were high, at least
   we no longer felt the emptiness or the need.  There was one drawback:  The
   drugs, which were our solution, quickly became our problem.

   Once we gave up the drugs, the sense of emptiness returned.  At first we
   felt despair because we didn't have any solution of our own to that
   miserable longing.   But we were willing to take direction and began to
   work the steps.  As we did, we found what we'd been looking for, that
   "something different." Today, we believe that our lifelong yearning
   was primarily for knowledge of  a Higher Power;  the  "something
   different" we needed was a relationship with a loving God.  The steps
   tell us how to begin that relationship.

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   Just for today:  My Higher Power is the "something different" that's
   always been missing in my life.   I will use the steps to restore that
   missing ingredient to my spirit.