Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   May 28                                                    As we understand

    "We examined our lives and discovered who we really are.  To be truly
            humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 36

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   As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our personality.
   We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order to get our
   "fix."   We were survival  machines, adapting easily to  every
   circumstance of the using life.

   Once we began our recovery, we entered a new and different life.  Many of
   us had no idea what behavior was appropriate for us in any given
   situation.  Some of us didn't know how to talk to people, how to dress,
   or how to behave in public.   We couldn't be ourselves because we
   didn't know who we were anymore.

   The Twelve Steps give us a simple method for finding out who we really
   are.  We uncover our assets and our defects, the things we like about
   ourselves and the things we're not so thrilled about.   Through the
   healing power of the Twelve Steps, we begin to understand that we are
   individuals, created to be who we are by the Higher Power of our
   understanding.  The real healing begins when we understand that if our
   Higher Power created us this way, it must be okay to be who we really are.

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   Just for today:  By working the steps I can experience the freedom to be
   myself, the person my Higher Power intended me to be.