Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   September 22                                              Keeping the gift

     "Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 102

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   Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift we've been
   given.  Suppose someone gave you a new car.  Would you let it sit in the
   driveway until the tires rotted?   Would you just drive it, ignoring
   routine maintenance, until it expired on the road?   Of course not!   You
   would go to great lengths to maintain the condition of such a valuable
   gift.

   Recovery is also a gift, and we have to care for it if we want to keep
   it.  While our recovery doesn't come with an extended warranty, there is
   a routine maintenance schedule.  This maintenance includes regular meeting
   attendance and various forms of service.  We'll have to do some daily
   cleaning-our Tenth Step-and, once in a while, a major Fourth Step
   overhaul will be required.   But if we maintain the gift of recovery,
   thanking the Giver each day, it will continue.

   The gift of recovery is one that grows with the giving.  Unless we give it
   away, we can't keep it.  But in sharing our recovery with others, we
   come to value it all the more.

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   Just for today:  My recovery is a gift, and I want to keep it.  I'll do
   the required maintenance, and I'll share my recovery with others.