Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   July 13                                                 Humility in action

   "If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask
                                  for help."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 83

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   Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult.    It can be even more
   difficult to get humble enough to ask for help.  We think, "I have all
   this time clean.   I should be better than this!"  But the reality of
   recovery is simple: Whether we have thirty days or thirty years clean, we
   must be willing to ask for help when we need it.

   Humility is a common theme in our Twelve Steps.  The program of Narcotics
   Anonymous is not about keeping up appearances.  Instead, the program helps
   us get the most from our recovery.   We must be willing to lay bare our
   difficulties if we expect to find solutions to problems that arise in our
   lives.

   There's an old expression sometimes heard in Narcotics Anonymous:   We
   can't save our face and our ass at the same time.  It isn't easy to
   share in a meeting when we have a number of years clean only to dissolve
   into tears because life on life's terms has made us realize our
   powerlessness.  But when the meeting ends and another member comes up and
   says, "You know, I really needed to hear what you had to say," we know
   that there is a God working in our lives.

   The taste of humility is never bitter.  The rewards of humbling ourselves
   by asking for help sweeten our recovery.

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   Just for today:  If I need help, I  will ask for it.  I will put humility
   into action in my life.