Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   October 18                                                   We all belong

     "Although 'politics makes strange bedfellows,' as the old saying
                   goes, addiction makes us one of a kind."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 87

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   What a mixture of folks we have in Narcotics Anonymous!   In any given
   meeting on any given night, we'll find a variety of people who probably
   never would have sat down in a room together if it weren't for the
   disease of addiction.

   A member who is a physician described his unwillingness to identify at his
   first meeting by refusing to go into "that room full of junkies."
   Another member with an extensive background in jails and institutions
   shared a similar story, except that her shock and surprise stemmed from
   the realization that "there were nice people there-wearing suits,
   yet!"  These two friends recently celebrated their seventh wedding
   anniversary.

   The most unlikely people form friendships, sponsor each other, and do
   service work together.  We meet in the rooms of recovery together, sharing
   the bonds of past suffering and hope for the future.   We meet on mutual
   ground with our focus on the two things we all have in common-addiction
   and recovery.

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   Just for today:  No matter what my personal circumstances, I belong