Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   March 23                                                     God's gifts

    "We do the footwork and accept what's being given to us freely on a
                                daily basis."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 47

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   Our relationship with our Higher Power is a two-way street.  In prayer, we
   speak and God listens.  When we meditate, we do our best to listen for the
   will of our Higher Power.  We know that we are responsible for our part of
   the relationship.  If we do not pray and listen, we shut our Higher Power
   out of our lives.

   When we think about our relationship with our Higher Power, it's
   important to remember which one we are: the powerless one.  We can ask for
   guidance; we can ask for willingness or strength; we can ask for knowledge
   of our Higher Power's will-but we cannot make demands.  The God of our
   understanding-the one with the power-will fulfill that half of the
   relationship by giving us exactly what we need, when we need it.

   We need to take action every day to keep our relationship with a Higher
   Power alive.  One way we do this is by applying the Eleventh Step.   Then
   we remember our own powerlessness and accept the will of a Power greater
   than ourselves.

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   Just for today:   In my relationship with my Higher Power, I  am the
   powerless one.  Remembering who I am, today I will humbly accept the gifts
   of the God I understand.