Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 12                                                   The big picture

    "All spiritual awakenings have some things in common.  Common elements
     include an end to loneliness and a sense of direction in our lives."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 50

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   Some kinds of spiritual experiences take place when we confront something
   larger than we are.  We suspect that forces beyond our understanding are
   operating.  We see a fleeting glimpse of the big picture and find humility
   in that moment.

   Our journey through the Twelve Steps will bring about a spiritual
   experience of the same nature, only more profound and lasting.  We undergo
   a continual process of ego-deflation, while at the same time we become
   more conscious of the larger perspective.   Our view of the world expands
   to the point where we no longer possess an exaggerated sense of our own
   importance.

   Through our new awareness, we no longer feel isolated from the rest of the
   human race.  We may not understand why the world is the way it is or why
   people sometimes treat one another so savagely.   But we do understand
   suffering and, in recovery, we can do our best to alleviate it.  When our
   individual contribution is combined with others, we become an essential
   part of a grand design.  We are connected at last.

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   Just for today:  I am but one person in the entire scheme of things.   I
   humbly accept my place in the big picture.