Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   February 3                                              We need each other

    "Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed,
                       religion, or lack of religion."

                                                             Basic Text, p. 9

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   Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different.  We didn't need
   anyone or anything, we thought.  There was nothing of value to be found in
   anyone from a different neighborhood, a different racial or ethnic
   background, or a different social or economic class.  We may have thought
   that if it was different, it was bad.

   In recovery, we can't afford such attitudes.  We came to NA because our
   very best thinking had gotten us nowhere.   We must open our minds to
   experience that works, no matter where it comes from, if we hope to grow
   in our recovery.

   Regardless of our personal backgrounds, we all have two things in common
   with one another in NA  that we share with no one else: our disease, and
   our recovery.  We depend on one another for our shared experience-and
   the broader that experience, the better.  We need every bit of experience,
   every different angle on our program we can find to meet the many
   challenges of living clean.

   Recovery often isn't easy.  The strength we need to recover, we draw
   from our fellow NA members.  Today, we are grateful for the diversity of
   our group's membership, for in that diversity we find our strength.

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   Just for today:  I know that the more diverse my group's experience is,
   the better able my group will be to offer me support in the different
   circumstances I find myself facing.   Today, I welcome addicts from all
   backgrounds to my home group.