Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   August 24                                               Seeking God's will

          "We learn to be careful of praying for specific things."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 45

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   In our active addiction, we usually did not pray for knowledge of God's
   will for us and the power to carry it out.  On the contrary, most of our
   prayers were for God to get us out of the mess we had made for ourselves.
   We expected miracles on demand.  That kind of thinking and praying changes
   when we begin practicing the Eleventh Step.   The only way out of the
   trouble we have made for ourselves is through surrender to a Power greater
   than ourselves.

   In recovery, we learn acceptance.  We seek knowledge in our prayers and
   meditation of how we are to greet the circumstances that come our way.  We
   stop fighting, surrender our own ideas of how things should be, ask for
   knowledge, and listen for the answers.   The answers usually won't come
   in a flash of white light accompanied by a drum roll.   Usually, the
   answers will come merely with a quiet sense of assurance that our lives
   are on course, that a Power greater than ourselves is guiding us on our
   paths.

   We have a choice.  We can spend all our time fighting to make things come
   out our way, or we can surrender to God's will.  Peace can be found in
   accepting the ebb and flow of life.

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   Just for today:  I will surrender my expectations, look to my Higher Power
   for guidance, and accept life.