Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   February 7                                              This is not a test

       "...we have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 27

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   Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships
   are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something.  This belief
   is readily apparent when something traumatic happens and we wail, "My
   Higher Power is testing me!" We're convinced that it's a test of
   our recovery when someone offers us drugs, or a test of our character when
   faced with a situation where we could do something unprincipled without
   getting caught.  We may even think it's a test of our faith when we're
   in great pain over a tragedy in our lives.

   But a loving Higher Power doesn't test our recovery, our character, or
   our faith.  Life just happens, and sometimes it hurts.   Many of us have
   lost love through no fault of our own.  Some of us have lost all of our
   material wealth.   A  few of us have even grieved the loss of our own
   children.  Life can be terribly painful at times, but the pain is not
   inflicted on us by our Higher Power.  Rather, that Power is constantly by
   our sides, ready to carry us if we can't walk by ourselves.  There is no
   harm that life can do us that the God of our understanding can't heal.

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   Just for today:  I will have faith that my Higher Power's will for me is
   good, and that I am loved.  I will seek my Higher Power's help in times
   of need.