Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   September 6                                     Regular meeting attendance

   "We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to
                     our meetings regularly stay clean."

                                                             Basic Text, p. 9

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   The NA  program gives us a new pattern of living.   One of the basic
   elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance.   For the
   newcomer, living clean is a brand-new experience.   All that once was
   familiar is changed.   The old people, places, and things that served as
   props on the stage of our lives are gone.  New stresses appear, no longer
   masked or deadened by drugs.  That's why we often suggest that newcomers
   attend a meeting every day.  No matter what comes up, no matter how crazy
   the day gets, we know that our daily meeting awaits us.   There, we can
   renew contact with other recovering addicts, people who know what we're
   going through because they've been through it themselves.  No day needs
   to go by without the relief we get only from such fellowship.

   As we mature in recovery, we get the same kinds of benefits from regular
   meeting attendance.  Regardless of how long we've been clean, we never
   stop being addicts.   True, we probably won't immediately start using
   mass quantities of drugs if we miss our meetings for a few days.  But the
   more regularly we attend NA meetings, the more we reinforce our identity
   as recovering addicts.   And each meeting helps put us that much further
   from becoming using addicts again.

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   Just for today:   I will make a commitment to include regular meeting
   attendance as a part of my new pattern of living.