Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   December 27                                 God could restore us to sanity

    "The process of coming to believe restores us to sanity.  The strength
                 to move into action comes from this belief."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 25

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   Now that we've finally admitted our insanity and seen examples of it in
   all its manifestations, we might be tempted to believe that we are doomed
   to repeat this behavior for the rest of our lives.   Just as we thought
   that our active addiction was hopeless and we'd never get clean, we
   might now believe that our particular brand of insanity is hopeless.

   Not so!   We know that we owe our freedom from active addiction to the
   grace of a loving God.  If our Higher Power can perform such a miracle as
   relieving our obsession to use drugs, surely this Power can also relieve
   our insanity in all its forms.

   If we doubt this, all we have to do is think about the sanity that has
   already been restored to our lives.   Maybe we've gotten carried away
   with our credit cards; but sanity returns when we admit defeat and cut
   them all up.  Perhaps we've been feeling lonely and want to go visit our
   old using buddies.  Going to visit our sponsor instead is a sane act.

   The insanity of our addiction recedes into the past as we begin
   experiencing moments of sanity in our recovery.  Our belief in a Power
   greater than ourselves grows as we begin to understand that even our brand
   of insanity is nothing in the face of this Power.

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   Just for today:  I thank the God of my understanding for each sane act in
   my life, for I know they are indications of my restoration to sanity.